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STATE  DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION 
CHEYENNE,  WYOMING 


LARAMIE  WYOMING: 

THE  LARAMIE  REPUBLICAN  COMPANY 

PRINTERS  AND  BINDERS 

1919 


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Constitutional  Provisions 


ARTICLE  VII.    CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  STATE  OP 
WYOMING. 

Public  Schools. . 

Section  1.  The  legislature  Shall  provide  for  the  establish- 
ment and  maintenance  of  a  complete  and  uniform  system  of 
public  instruction,  embracing  free  elementary  sdhlools  of  every 
needed  kind  and  grade,  a  university  with  such  technical  and 
professional  departments  as  the  public  good1  may  require  and 
the  means  of  the  State  allow,  and  such  other  institutions  as  may 
be  necessary. 

School  Revenues. 

Sec.  2.  The  following  are  declared  to  be  perpetual  funds 
for  school  purposes,  of  whic'li  the  annual  income  only  can  be 
appropriated,  to- wit:  Such  per  centum  as  has  been  or  may 
hereafter  be  granted  by  Congress  on  the  sale  of  lands  in  this 
State ;  all  moneys  arising  from  the  sale  or  lease  of  sections  num- 
ber sixteen  and  thirty^six  in  each  township  in  the  State,  and 
tlhie  lands  selected  or  that  may  be  selected1  in  lieu  thereof ;  the 
proceeds  of  all  lands  that  have  been  or  may  hereafter  be  granted 
to  this  State,  where  by  the  terms  and  conditions  of  the  grant, 
the  same  are  not  to  be  otherwise  appropriated;  the  net  pro- 
ceeds of  lands  and  other  property  and  effects  that  may  come 
to  the  State  by  escheat  or  forfeiture,  or  from  unclaimed  divi- 
dends or  -distributive  shares  of  the  estates  of  deceased  persons ; 
all  moneys,  stocks,  bonds,  lands  and  other  property  now  belong- 
ing to  the  common  school  fund. 

Other  School  Revenues. 

Sec.  3.  To  the  sources  of  revenue  above  mentioned  shall  be 
added  all  other  grants,  gifts  and  devises  that  'hlave  been  or  may 
hereafter  be  made  to  this  State  and  n'ot  otherwise  appropriated 
by  the  terms  of  the  grant,  gift  or  devise. 

Restriction  in  Use  of  Revenues. 

Sec.  4.  All  moneys,  stocks,  bonds,  lands  and  other  property 
belonging  to  a  county  school  fund,  except  such  moneys  and 
property  as  may  be  provided  by  law  for  current  use  in  aid  of 
public  schools,  shall  belong  to  and!  be  securely  invested  and 
sacredly  preserved  in  tthe  several  counties  as  ia  county  public 
school  fund,  the  income  of  which  shall  be  appropriated  ex- 
clusively to  the  use  and  support  of  free  public  schools  in  the 
several  counties  of  the  State. 


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Fines — Disposition  Of. 

Sec.  5.  All  fines  and  penalties  under  general  laws  of  the 
State  shall  belong  to  the  public  school  fund  of  the  respective 
counties  and  be  paid  over  to  the  custodians  of  such  funds  for 
the  current  support  of  the  public  schools  therein. 

Sec.  6  (as  amended  by  Amendment  III,  L.  1917).  All  funds 
belonging  to  the  State  for  public  school  purposes,  the  interest 
and  income  of  which  only  are  to  be  used,  shall  be  deemed1  trust 
funds  in  the  care  of  the  State,  whiclhi  shall  keep  them  for  the 
exclusive  benefit  of  the  public  schools,  and  shall  make  good 
any  losses  that  may  in  any  manner  occur,  so  that  the  same  shall 
remain  forever  inviolate  and  undiminished.  None  of  such 
funds  shall  ever  be  invested  or  loaned,  except  on  tlhe  bonds 
issued  by  school  districts,  or  county  bonds  of  the  State,  or 
State  securities  of  this  State,  or  of  the  United'  States,  or  on 
first  mortgages  on  farm  lands  or  such  other  securities  as  may 
be  authorized  by  law. 

Application  of  School  Funds. 

Sec.  7.  The  income  arising  from  the  funds  mentioned  in 
the  preceding  section,  together  witlh  all  the  rents  of  the  unsold 
school  lands  and  such  other  means  as  the  legislature  may  pro- 
vide, shall  be  exclusively  applied  to  the  support  of  free  schools 
in  every  county  in  the  State. 

Distribution  of  School  Funds. 

Sec.  8.  Provision  shall  be  made  by  general  law  for  the 
equitable  distribution  of  such  income  among  the  several  coun- 
ties according  to  the  number  of  children  of  school  age  in  each, 
which  several  counties  shall  in  like  manner  distribute  the  pro- 
portion of  said  fund  by  them  received  respectively  to  the  sev- 
eral school  districts  embraced  therein.  But  no  appropriation 
slhall  be  made  from  said  fund  to  any  district  for  the  year  in 
which  a  school  has  not  been  maintained  for  at  least  three 
months  nor  shall  any  portion  of  any  public  school  fund  ever  be 
used  to  support  or  assist  any  private  school,  or  any  school, 
academy,  seminary,  college,  or  other  institution  of  learning 
controlled  by  any  church  or  sectarian  organization  or  religious 
denomination  whatsoever. 

Taxation  for  Schools. 

.  Sec.  9.  The  legislature  shall  make  such  further  provision 
by  taxation  or  otherwise,  as  with  the  income  arising  from  the 
general  school  fund  will  create  and  maintain  a  thorough  and 
efficient  system  of  public  schools  adequate  to  the  proper  instruc- 
tion of  all  tJhie  youth  of  the  State,  between  the  ages  of  six  and 
twenty-one  years,  free  of  charge ;  and,  in  view  of  such  provision 
so  made,  the  legislature  shall  require  that  every  child  of 
sufficient  physical  and  mental  ability  shall  attend  a  public 


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school  during  the  period  between  six  and  eighteen  years  for  a 
time  equivalent  to  three  years,  unless  educated  by  other  means. 

No' Discrimination  Between  Pupils. 

Sec.  10.  In  none  of  the  public  schools  so  established  and 
maintained  shall  distinction  or  discrimination  be  made  on  ac- 
count of  sex,  race  or  color. 

Text  Books. 

Sec.  11.  Neither  the  legislature  nor  the  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  shall  have  power  to  prescribe  text  books  to 
be  used  in  the  public  schools. 

Sectarianism  Prohibited. 

Sec.  12.  No  sectarian  instruction,  qualifications  or  tests 
shall  be  imparted,  exacted,  applied  or  in  any  manner  tolerated 
in  the  schools  of  any  grade  or  character  controlled  by  the  State, 
nor  shall  attendance  be  required  at  any  religious  service  theroin. 
nor  shall  any  sectarian  tenets  or  doctrines  be  taught  or  favored 
in  any  public  school  or  institution  that  may  be  established 
under  this  constitution. 

Land  Commissioners. 

Sec.  13.  The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State,  State  Treasurer 
and  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  constitute  a 
Board  of  Land  Commissioners,  whidh,  under  direction  of  the 
legislature,  as  limited  by  this  constitution,  shall  have  direction, 
control,  leasing  and  disposal  of  the  lands  of  the  State  granted, 
or  which  may  be  hereafter  granted  for  the  support  and  benefit 
of  public  schools,  subject  to  the  further  limitations  that  the 
sale  of  all  lands  shall  be  at  public  auction,  .after  such  delay  (not 
less  than  the  time  fixed'  by  congress)  in  portions  at  proper 
intervals  of  time,  and  at  such  minimum  prices  (not  less  than 
the  minimum  fixed  by  congress)  as  to  realize  the  largest  pos- 
sible proceeds. 

Supervision  of  Schools. 

Sec.  14.  The  general  supervision  of  the  public  schools  shall 
be  entrusted  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
whose  powers  and  duties  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 

THE  UNIVERSITY. 

Establishment  of  University. 

Sec.  15.  The  establishment  of  the  University  of  Wyoming 
is  hereby  confirmed,  and  said  institution,  with  its  several  de- 
partments, is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  University  of  the  State 
of  Wyoming.  All  lands  which  have  been  heretofore  granted  or 
which  may  be  granted  hereafter  by  congress  unto  the  uni- 
versity as  such,  or  in  aid  of  the  instruction  to  be  given  in  any 


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of  its  departments,  with  /all  other  grants,  donations,  or  devises 
for  said  university,  or  for  any  of  its  departments,  shall  vest  in 
said  university,  and  be  exclusively  used  for  the  purposes  for 
which  they  were  granted,  donated  or  devised.  The  said  lands 
may  be  leased  on  terms  approved  by  the  land  commissioners, 
but  may  not  be  sold  on  terms  not  approved  by  congress. 

Tuition  Free. 

Sec.  16.  The  university  shall  be  equally  open  to  students 
of  both  sexes,  irrespective  of  race  or  color;  and,  in  order  that 
the  instruction  furnished  may  be  as  nearly  free  as  possible,  any 
amount  in  addition  to  the  income  from  its  grants  of  lands  and 
other  sources  above  mentioned,  necessary  to  its  support  and 
maintenance  in  a  condition  of  full  efficiency  shall  be  raised  by 
taxation  or  otherwise,  under  provisions  of  the  legislature. 

Government  of  University. 

Sec.  17.  The  legislature  shall  provide  by  law  for  the  man- 
agement of  the  university,  its  lands  and1  other  property  by  a 
B<oard  of  Trustees,  consisting  of  not  less  than  seven  members, 
to  be  appointed  by  the  Governor  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  Senate,  and  the  President  of  the  university,  and 
the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  as  members  ex  officio, 
as  such  having  the  rigiht  to  speak,  but  not  to  vote.  The  duties 
and  powers  of  the  Trustees  shall  be  prescribed  by  law. 


Statutory  Provisions 

CHAPTER  1. 
STATE  DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION. 

Supervision  of  Public  Schools. 

Section  1.  The  general  supervision  of  the  public  schools 
shall  be  entrusted  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction, who  shall  administer  the  State  system  according  to 
law  for  the  best  interests  of  the  people  and  of  the  State,  mak- 
ing such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
proper  and  effective  administration  of  the  same.  Provided, 
That  nothing  in  this  Act  or  any  Chapter  thereof  sthall  be  con- 
strued to  limit  or  contravene  the  functions  and  powers  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University  of  Wyoming  as  hitherto 
established  by  law  in  conformity  with  the  Constitution  of  the 
State  of  Wyoming  and  the  Laws  of  the  United  States.  [L. 
1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  1.] 

Educational  Matters  Affecting  Counties. 

Sec.  2.  Educational  matters  affecting  the  county  shall  be 
under  the  supervision  of  the  'County  Superintend'ent  of  Schools. 
tL.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  2.] 

Educational  Matters  Affecting  School  Districts. 

Sec.  3.  Educational  matters  affecting  the  school  district 
shall  be  under  the  care  of  the  District  Board  of  School  Trustees. 
[L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  3.] 

State  Board  of  Education. 

Sec.  4.  There  shall  be  a  State  Board  of  Education  to  be 
composed  of  seven  members,  at  least  two  of  whom  shall  be  per- 
sons actively  engaged  in  educational  work.  The  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  shall  be  ex-officio  a  member  of 
such  Board  and  shall  hiave  the  right  to  vote.  The  other  six 
members  of  said  Board  shall  be  appointed  from  among  the 
citizens  of  the  State  in  such  a  manner  that  the  different  parts 
of  the  State  shall  be  represented,  and  not  more  than  four  mem- 
bers of  such  Board  shall  be  from  one  political  party,  and  the 
members  shall  hold  office  from  the  first  April  succeeding  their 
appointment  for  a  term  of  six  years,  provided  that  the  length 
of  the  term  of  the  first  regular  appointees  under  this  section 
shall  be  as  follows :  Two  members  shall  be  appointed  for  two 
years,  two  for  four  years,  two  for  six  years,  but  thereafter  the 


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term  of  each  member  shall  be  six  years.  They  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  with 
the  approval  of  the  Governor,  and  shall  be  appointed  solely 
because  of  their  character  and  fitness.  All  members  of  the 
Board!  shall  be  persons  of  mature  years,  known  for  their  in- 
tegrity, culture,  public  spirit,  business  ability,  and  interest  in 
public  education.  Vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Pu'blic  Instruction  with  the  approval  of  the  Gover- 
nor and  shall  be  for  the  unexpired  term.  All  members  shall 
be  eligible  to  reappointment  unless  otherwise  disqualified  by 
the  provisions  of  this  Act.  Members  of  the  Board  may  be  re- 
moved by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  with 
the  approval  of  the  Governor  for  immorality,  misconduct, 
neglect  of  duty,  or  incompetency.  The  Board  shall  meet  semi- 
annually  on  the  second  Monday  in  April  and1  October.  The 
first  meeting  of  each  year  shall  be  for  the  purpose  of  organiza- 
tion, at  which  a  chairman  shall  be  elected,  but  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  shall  act  as  secretary.  Special  meetings 
may  be  held  <as  often  as  the  duties  of  the  Board  require  and  the 
Board  shall  meet  at  the  call  of  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  or  the  Governor  whenever  in  the  opinion  of 
these  officials  an  emergency  exists.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  'Sec.  4.] 

Duties  of  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 

Sec.  5.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  exercise  general  control  and  supervision  of  the  public 
schools  and  the  educational  interests  of  the  State.  He  shall 
consult  with  iand  advise  through  the  Commissioner  of  Educa- 
tion, with  Boards  of  Education,  County  and  City  Superin- 
tendents, Supervisors,  Principals,  Teachers,  and  other  such 
school  officers  and  citizens,  and  seek  in  every  way  to  develop 
public  sentiment  in  support  of  progressive  education.  [L.  1919, 
Chap.  127,  Sec.  5.] 

Interpretation  of  School  Laws. 

Sec.  6.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  explain  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  the  school  laws  and 
of  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Education  and 
shall  decide  without  expense  to  the  parties  concerned  all  con- 
troversies and  disputes  involving  the  administration  of  the 
public  school  system  and  his  decisions  shall  hold  until  revoked 
by  court  of  competent  jurisdiction.  He  shall  have  authority 
to  administer  oaths  and  examine  under  oath  any  witnesses  on 
any  matter  pertaining  to  public  schools  in  any  part  of  the  State. 
He  shall  hiave  power  to  enforce  all  provisions  of  this  Act  and 
of  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Education. 
[L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  6.] 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  9 

Agreements  and  Contracts  with  Publishing  Houses. 

Sec.  7.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  furnish  all  publishing  houses  selling  books  within  the 
State,  contract  forms  for  their  use  in  entering  into  agreements 
with  school  officers  for  the  purchase  of  books  to  be  used  in  the 
public  schools.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  7.] 

Census  of  School  Children. 

Sec.  8.  There  shall  be  an  annual  census  of  all  school  chil- 
dren in  the  State.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Insruc- 
tion  shall,  with  the  advice  of  the  State  Board  of  Education, 
provide  for  taking  such  annual  census  and  shall  prescribe  rules 
and  regulations  and  furnish  forms  anid  blanks  for  the  use  of 
county  superintendents,  district  boards,  principals,  teachers, 
and  all  other  school  officials,  and  shall  require  all  financial 
accounts  and  all  educational  records  to  be  kept  and  reports 
made  according  to  these  forms  and  blanks.  [L.  1919,  Chap. 
127,  Sec.  8.] 

Report  to  Governor. 

Sec.  9.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
and  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall  report  biennially  to  the 
Governor  and  the  legislature  a  complete  statement  of  the  work 
of  the  educational  department,  including  financial  statements, 
educational  progress,  and  needs  of  the  State  school  system  and 
he  shall  recommend  to  the  Governor  and  the  legislature  such 
legislation  concerning  schools  and  such  appropriations  for  addi- 
tional educational  activities  as  he  may  see  fit  and  as  the  educa- 
tional needs  of  the  State  may  require.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127, 
Sec.  9.] 

Shall  Assume  Duties  of  State  Board  of  Examiners. 

Sec.  10.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
with  the  advice  of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  shall  assume 
the  powers  and  duties  now  conferred  upon  the  State  Board 
of  Examiners.  They  shall  in  connection  with  such  duties  keep 
on  file  information  regarding  the  certification,  experience,  and 
efficiency  of  the  teachers,  which  shall  be  iat  the  disposal  of 
Superintendents  and  School  Trustees  when  called  for.  [L. 
1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  10.] 

Normal  Department  of  State  University. 

Sec.  11.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  advise  with  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  State  University 
in  matters  relating  to  the  course  of  study  in  the  State  Normal 
Department  of  the  State  University.  The  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  and  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall  be 
the  Trustees  of  all  other  teacher  training  institutions  which 
may  hereafter  be  established.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  11.] 


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Compensation  of  Members  of  Board  of  Education. 

Sec.  12.  Members  of  the  State  Board  of  Education  shall 
receive  no  salary,  but  shall  receive  travelling  and1  other  ex- 
penses necessarily  incurred  in  the  performance  of  their  duties. 
[L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  12.] 

Admission  of  Public  Schools — Rules  For. 

Sec.  13.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
with  the  State  Boiard  of  Education  shall  prescribe  policies'  of 
educational  administration  throughout  the  State,  and  shall 
recommend  rules  and  regulations  for  the  administration  of  the 
public  school  system.  For  the  purpose  of  enforcing  the  school 
laws,  the  Board  may  institute  legal  proceedings  in  the  name 
of  the  State  of  Wyoming.  [L.  1919,  Chaip.  127,  Sec.  13.] 

Vocational  Schools. 

Sec.  14.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  have  general 
oversight  of  vocational  or  other  special  schools  receiving  State 
aid.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  14.] 

Course  of  Study  in  Schools. 

Sec.  15.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  prescribe 
standards  regulating  the  general  course  of  study  for  the  ele- 
mentary and  high  schools,  and  for  any  other  educational  insti- 
tutions which  receive  State  aid,  and  shall  provide  for  the  print- 
ing and  distribution  of  a  suggestive  State  course  of  study  and 
of  'all  other  printed1  matter  necessary  to  carry  out  the  provisions 
of  this  Act,  and  shall  provide  for  the  grading  and  standardiza- 
tion of  elementary  and  high  schools,  and  shall  enumerate  the 
minimum  standards  with  which  schools  receiving  money  from 
any  State  fund  must  complj7.  Such  standards  may  include  in 
addition  to  education  restrictions,  rules1  and  regulations  for  the 
sanitary  and  hygienic  construction  of  school  houses  and  the 
location  and  selection  of  grounds.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec. 
15.] 
Publication  of  Courses  of  Reading. 

Sec.  16.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  prescribe  and 
publish  annually  courses  of  reading  for  teachers  in  the  ele- 
mentary and  high  schools  and  may  require  certified  statements 
from  teachers  or  take  such  other  methods1  as  may  in  its  judg- 
ment seem  necessary  to  assure  itself  that  the  required  reading 
has  been  done,  or  it  sihall  prescribe  such  other  methods  of  train- 
ing teachers  in  service  as  it  may  deem  necessary  and  promote 
the  same  through  city  and  county  superintendents.  [L.  1919, 
Chap.  127,  Sec.  16.] 

Rules  for  Administration  of  Laws  Governing  Certification  of 

Officers. 

5Sec.  17.  The  Sate  Board  of  Education  shall  prescribe  rules 
and  regulations  for  administering  the  laws  governing  the  cer- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  11 

tification  of  superintendents,  supervisors,  principals,  and  teach- 
ers, whether  by  examination  in  specified  subjects  or  through 
the  completion  of  courses  in  approved  institutions  and  in  its 
discretion,  prepare  and  publish  lists  of  approved  Normal 
schools,  Colleges,  and  Universities  and  fix  standards  for  such 
approval.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  17.] 

Office  Assistants — Field  Agents. 

Sec.  18.  The  State  Department  of  Education  shall  foe  pro- 
vided with  adequate  office  assistants,  ample  room  and  equip- 
ment. There  may  be  field  agents,  who  shall  assist  in  the  gen- 
eral supervisory,  advisory  and  inspectorial  duties  of  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  The  field  agents  shall 
also  be  advisors  and  inspectors  of  high  schools  and  such  schools 
as  receive  State  aid  for  vocational  or  other  courses  or  for  other 
purposes  approved  by  the  State  Board  of  Education.  [L.  1919, 
Chap.  127,  Sec.  18.] 

Commissioner  of  Education. 

Sec.  19.  The  State  Board  of  Education,  with  the  approval 
of  the  Governor,  shall  appoint  a  Commissioner  of  Education. 
[L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  19.] 

Power  of  Commissioner. 

Sec.  20.  The  Commissioner  of  Education  shall,  under  the 
general  supervision  and  direction  of  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  execute  the  educational  policies  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  20.] 

Qualifications  of  Commissioner. 

Sec.  21.  The  Commissioner  of  Education  shall  be  a  person 
of  literary  and  scientific  attainments,  versed  in  history,  theory, 
and  principles  of  education,  with  practical  knowledge  of  the 
organization  and  management  of  the  schools.  He  shall  be  a 
graduate  of  a  standard  four  year  College  or  University,  or  have 
an  equivalent  education  and  training,  shall  be  an  experienced 
educator  actively  engaged  in  educational  work  at  the  time  or 
within  two  years  of  the  time  of  his  assuming  the  duties  of  his 
office.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  21.] 

Duties  of  Commissioner. 

Sec.  22.  The  Commissioner  of  Education  shall  devote  his 
time,  attention,  and  energies  to  the  faithful  performance  of  the 
duties  of  his  office  as  prescribed  by  law.  He  shall  prepare  and 
publish  such  pamphlets1,  and  bulletins  as  shall  stimulate  public 
interest  in  education  and  inform  the  public  on  the  educational 
policies  of  the  administration;  shall  make  tours  of  inspection 
from  time  to  time  in  the  several  counties  of  the  State  for  the 
discussion  and  consideration  of  questions  of  public  education; 
shall  foster  professional  growth  and  enthusiasm  in  teaching  and 


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school  affairs  by  every  means  available;  sball  in  person  and 
through  his  assistants  examine  the  expenditures  and  accounts, 
the  educational  and  administrative  methods  of-  boards  and 
superintendents;  shall  advise  with  them  on  all  matters  pertain- 
ing to  the  management  of  the  school  system  and  shall  arrange 
for  such  conferences,  conventions,  or  institutes,  as  he  may  deem 
necessary  or  as  may  be  provided  by  law.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127, 
Sec.  22.] 

Commissioner  Shall  Suggest  Course  of  Study. 

Sec.  23.  The  Commissioner  of  Education  shall  prepare  or 
cause  to  be  prepared  land  shall  submit  for  approval  and  adop- 
tion by  the  State  Board  of  Education,  a  suggestive  course  of 
study  for  the  different  grades  and  kinds  of  elementary  and  high 
schools  and  such  other  schools  as  receive  State  funds  or  State 
aid.  He  shall  prepare  for  the  use  and  guidance  of  the  district 
board  such  regulations  and  suggestions  for  standardizing  and 
grading  schools  and  for  the  hygienic  and  sanitary  building  of 
school  houses  and  the  selections  of  sites.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127, 
Sec.  23.] 

Distribution  of  School  Laws  and  Reports. 

Sec.  24.  The  Commissioner  of  Education  shall  have  printed 
and  distributed  the  school  law  and  such  forms  for  and  instruc- 
tions regarding  reports  as  will  enable  the  school  officers  to 
make  them  out  fully  and  correctly.  He  shall  furnish  all  forms 
necessary  to  carry  out  legal  requirements  or  to  furnish  such  data 
as  may  from  time  to  time  be  required  by  the  rules  and  regula- 
tions of  the  Board  of  Education  or  by  the  provisions  of  the 
State  school  law.  He  may  require  from  the  county  'Superin- 
tendents, city  superintendents,  principals,  teachers,  and  school 
officers,  annual  reports  'and  such  other  reports  as  he  may  at 
any  time  deem  necessary  and  advisable.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127, 
Sec.  24.] 

Publication  of  Lists  of  Text  Books. 

Sec.  25.  The  Commissioner  of  Education,  through  the  State 
Board  of  Education,  shall  publish  lists  of  approved  text  books, 
together  with  prices,  for  use  in  public  schools  of  the  State  from 
which  superintendents,  teachers,  and  trustees  may  select  such 
books  as  are  most  suitable  for  the  schools  over  which  they 
preside,  provided  that  these  lists  give  sufficient  latitude  to  en- 
able school  officers  affected  to  make  such  selection  as  fit  their 
particular  needs,  and  further  provided  that  no  books  shall  be 
included  unless  publishers  have  complied  with  the  law.  [L. 
1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  25.] 

Investigations  Regarding  Educational  Needs. 

Sec.  26.  The  State  Board  of  Education  and  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  shall  conduct  investigations  within  and 


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without  the  State  regarding  educational  needs  and  progress 
and  means  of  improving  conditions;  they  may  appoint  special 
agents  for  such  investigations  and  perform  any  additional 
duties  required  by  law.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  26.] 

Certification  Division. 

Sec.  27.  A  Certification  Division  of  the  State  Department 
of  Education  shall  be  created.  The  chief  officer  of  this  division 
shall  be  the  Commissioner  of  Education  and  shall  be  a  person  of 
high  professional  qualifications  and  of  broad  experience  in  edu- 
cational work.  The  chief  of  this  division  shall  also  conduct  the 
State  Teacher's  Employment  Bureau  and  shall  be  held  re- 
sponsible for  the  work  of  his  division.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127, 
Sec.  27.] 
List  of  Teachers  Employed — Register. 

Sec.  28.  The  Chief  of  the  Certification  Division  shall  keep 
in  his  office  classified  lists  of  all  the  teachers  employed  in  the 
State,  and  such  other  teachers  within  or  without  the  State  as 
desire  to  register  with  the  State  Department  of  Education,  with 
records  concerning  the  training,  education,  certification,  ex- 
perience, teaching  success,  and  such  other  facts  as  relate  to 
their  ability  to  teach  and  enable  him  to  furnish  reliable  infor- 
mation to  superintendents  and  trustees  who  desire  to  engage 
teachers.  Assistance  given  to  boards  in  the  employment  of 
teachers  and  to  teachers  in  securing  positions,  shall  be  without 
charge.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  28.] 

Methods  of  Obtaining  Certificate. 

Sec.  29.  Provisions  shall  be  made  for  two  methods  by 
which  certificates  may  be  obtained,  namely,  through  examina- 
tion and  upon  credentials,  and  these  two  ways  of  obtaining  cer- 
tificates shall  be  made  as  nearly  as  possible  of  equivalent  stan- 
dards. All  forms  of  certificates  shall  be  issued  from  the  office 
of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  upon  the 
recommendation  of  the  Certification  Division  and  the  registry 
of  these  certificates  shall  be  kept  on  file.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Certification  Division  to  prepare  and  recommend  to  the 
State  Board  of  Education  a  list  of  approved  institutions  whose 
graduates  may  receive  certificates  without  examination.  The 
Division  shall  also  provide  for  the  recognition  of  certificates 
granted  in  other  states.  All  certificates  shall  be  State  certi- 
ficates and  valid  in  all  counties  of  the  State,  subject  to  registra- 
tion as  provided  by  law.  Examinations  shall  be  uniform  as1  to 
lists  of  questions,  dJates  of  holding,  and  rules  and  regulations 
governing  these  matters  in  the  various  counties.  The  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  co-operate  with  the  Certifica- 
tion Division  in  administering  all  examinations,  reporting 
grades,  and  distributing  certificates,  in  their  respective  coun- 
ties. [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  29.] 


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Number  of  Examinations — Fees. 

Sec.  30.  The  Certification  Division  shall  determine  the 
mimlber  of  examinations  to  be  given  each  year,  and  publish  an- 
nouncements for  the  year  at  least  six  months  in  advance  of  the 
date  of  the  first  examination  to  be  given  during  the  year,  but 
the  Certification  Division  may  provide  for  examinations  when- 
ever deemed  advisable.  Certificates  granted  on  credentials  may 
be  applied  for  at  any  time,  such  application  to  be  made  through 
the  office  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  accordance 
with  such  rules  as  the  Stiate  Department  may  prescribe.  Every 
applicant  for  a  certificate  to  be  granted  upon  examination,  cre- 
dentials, or  renewal,  shall  p&y  such  reasonable  fee  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  State  Board  of  Education.  [L.  1919,  Chap. 
127,  Sec.  30.] 

Classes  of  Certificate. 

Sec.  31.  The  State  Board  of  Edtucation  through  its  Cer- 
tification Division  shall  provide  for  the  following  classes  of  cer- 
tificates: (1)  Elementary  City  School  Certificates;  (2)  Rural 
School  Certificates;  (3)  High  School  Certificates;  (4)  Adminis- 
trative Certificates;  (5)  Special  Certificates.  [L.  1919,  Chap. 
127,  Sec.  31.] 

Registration  of  Certificates. 

Sec.  32.  All  certificates  must  annually  be  registered  at  the 
office  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  the  county 
wherein  the  holder  shall  intend  to  teach  the  ensuing  year. 
Before  such  certificates  c!an  be  registered  the  holder  of  each 
must  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  of  having  complied  with  the 
rules  and  regulations  of  the  State  Board  of  Education  with 
reference  to  professional  study.  Failure  to  comply  with  the 
registration  law  shall  invalidate  the  holder's  certificate  and 
such  person  shall  not  be  entitled  to  receive  pay  for  teaching, 
provided,  that  exception  to  this  regulation  may  be  permitted 
by  the  State  Board  of  Education  upon  the  written  application 
of  a  district  board.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  32.] 

Issuance  of  Certificates. 

Sec.  33.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
shall  issue  certificates  to  superintendents,  supervisors,  prin- 
cipals, and  teachers,  on  the  recommendation  of  the  State  Board 
of  Education,  and  shall  make  such  arrangements  as  to  time, 
place  and  manner  of  holding  such'  examinations  as  may  be 
necessary  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  the  Board  and  the 
statutes  regarding  such  certification.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec. 
33.] 

Revocation  of  Certificate. 

Sec.  34.  The  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
through  the  Certification  Division  shall  have  power  to  revoke  a 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING  15 

teacher's  certificate  upon  evidence  of  a  gross1  neglect  of  duty, 
incompetency,  immorality,  or  other  reprehensible  conduct. 
Such  evidence  must  be  presented  in  written  charges  and  no 
certificate  shall  be  revoked  without  a  personal  hearing  unless 
the  holder  thereof  shall  refuse  or  fail  to  appear  for  such  hear- 
ing. [L.  1919,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  34.] 

Salary  of  Commissioner. 

Sec.  35.  The  Commissioner  of  Education  shall  receive  an 
annual  salary  of  three  thousand  dollars  ($3,000.00).  [L.  1919, 
Chap.  127,  Sec.  35.] 

Certificate  Necessary  for  Compensation. 

Sec.  36.  No  person  shall  teach  or  supervise  a  public  school 
in  the  State  of  Wyoming  and  receive  compensation  therefor  out 
of  any  public  fundl  who  at  the  time  of  rendering  such  services 
is  not  a  holder  of  a  certificate  granted  under  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2020.] 


HIGH  SCHOOL  NORMAL  TRAINING  DEPARTMENTS. 

In  Accredited  Schools — Subjects  to  be  Taught. 

Sec.  37.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  High  Schools  of  the 
State  accredited  by  the  State  Board  of  Examiners,  are  hereby 
authorized  to  establish  Normal  Training  Departments  in  such 
High  Schools,  in  which  shall  be  taught  elementary  psychology, 
rural  school  management,  rural  school  methods,  primary  meth- 
ods, arithmetic,  language,  geography,  history,  civics,  physi- 
ology, music,  drawing  and  agriculture  and  in  which  at  least 
one  hour  each  day  shall  be  -devoted  to  practice  work  under  the 
guidance  of  a  regularly  employed  teacher,  who  shall  have  com- 
pleted the  training  course  of  a  regular  Normal  School.  The 
course  of  studies  for  such  High  School  Normial  Department 
shall  cover  a  semester's  work  and  graduation  therefrom  shall 
require  one  year's  work  of  nine  months.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  123, 
Sec.  1.] 

A  dmission — Certificates . 

Sec.  38.  Pupils  who  have  completed  three  full  years'  work 
in  an  accredited  High  School  of  the  State,  or  who  hold  a  third 
grade  certificate,  shall  be  admitted  to  said  Normal  Department, 
and  upon  completing  one  year's  course  therein  shall  be  entitled 
to  receive  a  teacher's  certificate,  to  be  known  as  a  State  Normal 
Training  Department  Certificate,  which  shall  be  valid  for  one 
year,  and  shall  entitle  the  holder  to  teach  in  rural  schools  only 
upon  passing  the  regular  teachers'  examination  in  rhetoric  and 
theory  iand  practice,  and  securing  no  less  than  80%  in  each 
subject,  a  holder  of  this  certificate  shall  be  issued  a  regular 


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second  grade  certificate.  Pupils  who  have  completed  a  full 
four  years '  course  in  an  accredited  High  School  before  entering 
this  Department  shall,  upon  completing  one  year's  work  there- 
in, 'be  issued  a  teacher's  certificate  entitled  an  "Advanced  State 
Normal  Training  Department  Certificate",  which  shall  be  valid 
for  two  years  and  subject  to  renewal  under  the  regulations 
for  renewing  other  certificates.  The  holder  of  this  certificate 
shall  be  issued  a  first  grade  State  certificate  under  the  same 
conditions  that  the  holder  of  a  regular  second  grade  certificate 
is  issued  a  first  grade  certificate.  When  the  holder  of  an  Ad- 
vanced State  Normal  Training  Department  Certificate  shall 
have  taught  one  year  he  or  she  shall  be  given  one  year's  credit 
in  the  regular  work  of  the  Normal  Schools  of  the  State.  [L. 
1917,  Chap.  123,  Sec.  2.] 

Equipment — Teachers . 

Sec.  39.  Boards  of  Trustees  of  High  Schools  establishing 
Normal  Training  Departments,  a,s  herein  provided,  shall  furnish 
books  and  apparatus  sufficient  for  said  department  of  the  class 
designated  by  the  State  Board  of  Teachers  Examiners,  and  shall 
employ  teachers  for  said!  department  who  have  been  specially 
trained  for  the  instruction  of  teachers  for  rural  schools.  On 
and  after  August  31,  1919,  any  teacher  now  in  the  work  must 
have  had  full  four  year  course  in  a  university  or  college  with 
special  professional  training.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  123,  Sec.  3.] 

Tax  Levy. 

Sec.  40.  Any  board  of  trustees  of  -an  accredited  High 
School  of  the  State  desiring  to  establish  a  Normal  Training 
Department  therein  shall  so  declare  by  formal  resolution  and 
shall  cause  the  clerk  of  said  board  to  transmit  a  certified  copy 
of  said  resolution  to  the  State  Board  of  Equalization,  on  or  be- 
fore the  1st  day  of  July  thereafter,  and  it  shall  be  the  dfuty  of 
the  State  Board  of  Equalization  to  provide  for  the  levy  of  a 
special  tax  of  one-eighth  of  one  mill,  or  so  much  thereof  as 
may  be  necessary  to  provide  all  accredited  High  Schools  of 
the  State  wherein  Normal  Departments  have  been  established 
and  so  certified,  with  the  sum  of  One  Thousand  Dollars  ($1,- 
000.00)  annually,  said  tax  to  be  levied  upon  each  and  every 
dollar  of  the  assessed  valuation  of  the  State  and  collected  and 
paid  to  the  State  Treasurer  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for 
the  collection  and  payment  of  other  States  taxes.  The  sum  of 
One  Thousand  Dollars  ($1,000.00)  shall  be  payable  from  said 
tax  fund  to  the  treasurers  of  the  boards  of  such  accredited 
High  Schools  wherein  Normal  Departments  have  been  so  estab- 
lished and  certified,  upon  a  warrant  of  the  State  Auditor  to  be 
issued)  upon  the  voucher  of  such  treasurer,  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  to  coun- 


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tersign  the  voucher.    Such  fund  to  be  used  solely  for  the  pay- 
ment of  teacher's  salary.     [L.  1917,  Chap.  123,  Sec.  4.] 

Room. 

Sec.  41.  Boards  of  trustees  governing"  accredited  four- 
year  High  Schools  of  the  State,  wherein  Normal  Departments 
have  been  established,  are  hereby  required  to  provide  a  room 
for  the  use  of  said  Normal  or  Training  Department,  and  such 
room  shall  be  used -solely  for  the  use  of  said  Normal  Training 
Department.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  123,  Sec.  5.] 


ACCEPTANCE  OF  TERMS  OF  FEDERAL  VOCATIONAL 
EDUCATION  ACT. 

Acceptance. 

Sec.  42.  That  the  State  of  Wyoming  does  hereby  accept 
the  provisions  of  >an  act  of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States 
of  America  entitled!  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  promotion  of 
vocational  education ;  to  provide  for  cooperation  with  the 
States  in  the  promotion  of  such  education  in  agriculture  and 
the  trades  and  industries ;  to  provide  for  cooperation  with  the 
States  in  the  preparation  of  teachers  of  vocational  subjects ;  and 
to  appropriate  money  and  regulate  its  expenditure",  and  will 
observe  and  comply  with  all  the  requirements  of  said  act.  [L. 
1917,  Chap.  99,  Sec.  1.] 

State  Board. 

Sec.  43.  That  the  State  Board  of  Education  is  hereby 
designated  as  the  State  Board  for  the  puproses  of  the  said 
act  and  is  hereby  given  all  necessary  power  to  cooperate  with 
the  Federal  Board  of  Vocational  Education  in  the  administra- 
tion of  the  provisions  of  the  act,  [L.  1917,  Chap.  99,  Sec.  2.] 

State  Treasurer  Custodian  of  Funds. 

Sec.  44.  That  the  State  Treasurer  is  appointed  custodian 
of  funds  alloted  03^  Fed'eral  Act  to  the  State  of  Wyoming  for 
the  promotion  of  vocational  education,  and  he  shall  provide 
for  the  proper  custody  and  disbursement  of  such  funds  on 
the  requisition  of  the  State  Board  of  Education.  [L.  1917, 
Chap.  99,  Sec.  3.] 

Appropriation. 

Sec.  45.  That  there  is  hereby  appropriated  for  the  pur- 
poses of  this  Act  from  the  General  fund!  out  of  any  moneys 
not  otherwise  appropriated  Three  Thousand  ($3,000.00)  Dollars 
annually.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  99,  'Sec.  4.] 

Co-Operating  Between  State  and  Government. 

Sec.  46.  The  sum  of  Two  Thousand  Dollars  for  the  year 
ending  March  31,  1920,  and  the  further  sum  of  Two  Thousand 


18  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING 

Dollars  for  the  year  ending  March  31,  1921,  or  so  much  thereof 
as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated)  out  of  any  funds 
in  the  State  Treasury,  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  cooperating  with  the  Federal  Board  for  Vocational 
Education  in  paying  the  salaries  of  teachers,  supervisors,  and 
directors  of  agricultural  subjects,  and  teachers  of  trade,  home 
economics,  and  industrial  subjects,  and  the  training  of  teachers 
of  vocational  subjects,  and  to  comply  with  the  condition  of  the 
Act  of  Congress  of  the  United  States  of  America  providing  for 
the  promotion  of  Vocational  Education,  accepted  for  this  State 
by  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  thereof  approved  February  20, 
1917,  and  known  as  Chapter  99  of  the  Session  Laws  of  1917,  of 
the  State  of  Wyoming,  requiring  that  for  each  dollar  of  Fed- 
eral money  expended  under  said  Act  of  Congress  an  equal 
amount  shall  be  expended  by  the  State  or  local  community,  or 
both;  the  said  sums  respectively  hereby  appropriated  to  be  ex- 
pended in  accordance  with  the  plans  provided  by  the  State 
Board  designated  and  authorized  by  said  Act  of  the  Legisla- 
ture of  the  State  of  Wyoming,  to  cooperate  with  the  Federal 
Board  for  Vocational  Education,  and  approved  by  said  last 
named  bourd.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  145,  Sec.  14.] 

Fire  Escapes, 

Sec.  47.  Every  building  now  or  hereafter  used,  in  whole  or 
in  part,  as  a  public  building,  public  or  private  institution,  office 
building,  lyceum,  church,  theatre,  public  hall,  place  of  as- 
semblage or  place  of  public  resort,  and  every  hotel,  apartment 
house,  boarding  house,  tenement  house,  factory  or  workshop, 
three  or  more  stories  in  height,  school  and  hospital  buildings, 
two  or  more  stories  in  height,  shall  be  provided  with  safe  and 
suitable  metallic,  tunnel,  iron  or  fire-proof  ladders  or  stair  fire- 
escapes  with  guard  rail  of  sufficient  strength,  attached  to  the 
outside  walls  thereof  and  extending  from  or  suitably  near  the 
ground  to  the  uppermost  story  thereof,  with  platforms  not  less 
than  6x3  feet  and  of  such  shape  and  size  and  in  such  proximity 
to  the  windows  of  each  story  above  the  first,  as  to  render  access 
to  such  ladders  or  stairs  from  each  such  story  easy  and  safe 
to  the  occupants  of  such  building,  in  case  of  fire ;  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  every  proprietor,  custodian,  superintendent  or 
person  or  persons  having  charge  and  control  of  such  public 
buildings  mentioned  and  described  herein,  to  post  notices  in 
every  hall,  and  in  a  public  and  conspicuous  place  in  such  build- 
ing, designating  the  places  on  each  and  every  floor  of  such 
building  where  such  fire-escapes  are  located  and  may  be  found. 
[L.  1919,  Chap.  74,  Sec.  1.] 

Means  of  Exit — Doors. 

Sec.  48.  Every  building  now  or  hereafter  used,  in  whole 
or  in  part;  as  a  public  building,  pu'blic  or  private  institution, 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  19 

office  'building,  lyceum,  church,  school  house,  theatre,  picture 
show  house,  public  hall,  place  of  assemblage  or  place  of  public 
resort,  and  every  hotel,  apartment  house,  boarding  house  or 
tenement  house,  two  stories  or  less  in  height,  having  twelve 
(12)  or  more  rooms  shall  be  provided  with  at  least  two  stair- 
ways, hallways  or  means  of  exit  or  escape  from  each  story  in 
case  of  fire. 

In  addition  to  the  above  mentioned  and  described  stair- 
ways and  hallways  or  means  of  exit,  iall  doors  to  every  public 
hall,  lyceum,  theatre,  picture  show  house,  or  other  place  of 
amusement,  which  is  thrown  open  to  and  used  for  the  profit 
of  the  owner  or  proprietor  or  owners  or  proprietors  by  public 
assemblies  in  the  State  of  Wyoming,  shall  not  be  less  than 
three  feet  in  width,  and  shall  swing  or  open  out  of  and  not 
into  said  public  hall,  lyceum,  theatre,  picture  show  house,  or 
other  place  of  amusement.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  18,  Sec.  2.] 

Factories,  Offices,  Etc.,  to  be  Equipped. 

Sec.  49.  Every  building  now  or  hereafter  used,  in  whole 
or  in  part,  as  a  factory,  mill,  workshop,  garage,  office,  bakery, 
laundry,  store,  and1  any  other  building  or  buildings  in  which 
people  are  employed  at  manual  or  other  lalbor,  shall  be  pro- 
vided with  proper  and  sufficient  means  of  escape  in  case  of 
fire,  by  two  or  more  ways  of  egress,  and  all  doors  leading  into 
or  to  such  factory,  mill,  workshop,  garage,  office,  bakery, 
laundry,  store,  and  any  other  building  or  buildings  in  which 
people  are  employed  at  manual  or  other  labor,  shall  not  be 
locked,  bolted  or  fastened  during  working  hours  as  to  prevent 
free  and  easy  access  therefrom.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  18,  Sec.  3.] 

Exits  Unobstructed — Stairways. 

Sec.  50.  All  such  metallic,  iron  or  fire-proof  ladders  or 
stair  fire-escapes,  stairways,  hallways  or  meians  of  egress,  men- 
tioned or  described  in  this  Act,  shall  at  all  times  be  kept  free 
from  any  obstruction ;  in  good  repair  and  ready  for  use ;  and  at 
night,  or  where  lights  are  necessary  in  the  daytime,  a  red  light 
shall  be  provided  with  the  words  inscribed  thereon  "FIRE- 
ESCAPE".  Provided  that  on  all  hotel,  theatre,  school  and  hos- 
pital buildings,  two  or  more  stories  in  height,  said  stairways 
shall  extend  from  each  floor  of  said  building  to  the  ground  and 
shall  not  be  less  than  three  (3)  feet  wide,  the  r[a]isers  of  said 
stairs  shall  not  be  greater  than  eight  (8)  inches,  and  the  treads 
not  less  than  ten  (10)  inches  wide;  and  the  platform  not  less 
than  three  (3)  feet  wide,  and  in  all  cases  the  full  width  of  the 
stairs.  All  such  stairs  shall  have  proper  guard  rails  not  less 
than  twenty-eight  (28)  inches  high.  Where  tubing  is  used  for 
guard  rails  they  shall  be  not  more  than  ten  (10)  inches  apart; 
and  where  balusters  are  used  they  shall  be  not  more  than  six 
(6)  inches  apart.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  18,  Sec.  4.] 


20  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING 

Applicable  to  Schools. 

Sec.  51.  The  provisions  of  this  chapter  are  hereby  made 
applicable  to  the  trustees  of  all  universities  and  school  districts 
in  this  State,  operating  under  the  general  school  law  of  this 
State.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  18,  Sec.  5.] 

Penalty. 

Sec.  52.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation,  or  his  or  its 
agents,  officers,  directors  or  trustees,  owning  or  having  the 
management  or  control  of  any  such  buildings  o>r  structures 
herein  mentioned  or  described,  who  shall  fail,  neglect  or  refuse 
to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  Act  not  later  than  October 
first,  nineteen  hundred  seventeen  (October  1,  1917),  shall  be 
dteemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  on  conviction  thereof  shall 
be  punishable  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  for  not  less 
than  three,  nor  more  than  six  months,  or  by  a  fine  of  not  less 
than  One  Hundred  Dollars  ($100.00)  nor  more  than  Five  Hun- 
dred Dollars  ($500.00)  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 
Each  month  or  fraction  thereof  in  which  any  building  desig- 
nated in  this  Act  shall  remain  in  violation  thereof  shall  con- 
stitute a  separate  offense.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  18,  Sec.  6.] 

Additional  Requirements. 

Sec.  53.  Any  incorporated  city  or  town  may  by  ordinance 
make  additional  requirements  relative  to  fire-escapes  or  exits. 
[L.  1917,  Chap.  18,  Sec.  7.] 


MONTHLY    PAYMENT    BY    COUNTY    TREASURER    OF 
MUNICIPAL,  DISTRICT  AND  LIBRARY  FUNDS. 

Sec.  54.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  county  treasurer  of 
each  county. to  keep  an  accurate  record  of  all  fundls  in  his 
hands  and  due  to  the  respective  cities,  towns,  school  districts 
and  county  libraries  within  the  county;  and  on  the  first  day 
of  each  month  he  shall  pay  over  to  the  treasurer  of  each  city, 
town,  school  district  and  county  libraries  all  funds  there- 
tofore collected  by  him  for  the  benefit  of  the  respective  city, 
town,  school  district  or  county  libraries.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  31, 
Sec.  1.] 

NON-PARTISAN  ELECTION  OF  COUNTY  SUPERIN- 
TENDENTS. 

Sec.  55.  The  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  here- 
after be  nominated  -and  elected  regardless  of  political  affilia- 
tions. [L.  1917,  Chap.  59,  Sec.  1.] 

Petition  and  Affidavit — Fee. 

Sec.  56.  Any  person  desiring  to  become  a  candidate  for 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools  may,  within  not  more  than 


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sixty  nor  less  than  twenty  days  preceding  a  primary  election, 
file  with  the  County  Clerk  of  the  county  in  which  such  person 
resides,  a  statement  in  substantially  the  following  form,  to- 
wit : 

"Petition  and  Affidavit  of 

Candidate  for  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 

State  of  Wyoming,  1 

Us. 

County  of j 

I, ,  being  first  duly  sworn, 

say  that  I  reside  at ,  in  the  city  of , 

in  the  County  of in  the  State  of  Wyoming ;  that 

I  am  a  qualified  voter  of  said  State  and  said  county ;  that  I  am 
eligible  to  be  elected  to  the  office  to  which  I  aspire ;  that  I  am 
a  candidate  for  the  nomination  for  the  office  of  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  to  'be  voted  upon  at  the  primary  election 

to  'be  held  on  the day  of ,  19 ;  that  I 

hereby  request  that  my  name  be  printed  upon  the  official  ballot 
for  the  nomination  at  such  primary  election  for  the  office  of 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools. 


Subscribed  and  sworn  to  before  me  by  the  said 

this day  of ,  A.  D.  19 ["] . . 

Such  petition  iand  affidavit  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  fee 
of  Ten  Dollars  ($10.00),  to  be  paid  into  the  county  treasury 
of  said  county,  and  no  further  requisite  shall  be  necessary  for 
such  person  to  have  his  name  printed  on  the  non-partisan  pri- 
mary ballot. ["]  [L.  1917,  Chap.  59,  Sec.  2.] 

Ballots. 

Sec.  57.  Notwithstanding  any  more  general  law  respect- 
ing primary  elections  in  force  in  the  State,  the  official  ballot 
to  be  prepared  and  used  at  such  primary,  when  relating  to 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools  or  other  non-partisan  officers, 
shall  simply  place  the  names  of  all  candidates  for  judicial  offices 
and  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  upon  the  primary  ballot 
without  any  political  designation ;  the  names  to  be  arranged  as 
hereinafter  stated,  the  said  ballot  to  be  a  separate  ballot  from 
the  party  ballots  used  at  the  primary  election,  and  said  non- 
partisan  ballots  to  have  separate  columns  for  judicial  offices 
and  for  County  Superintendent  of  Schools ;  the  heading  of  the 
column  to  indicate  whether  the  column  is  for  the  school  officers 
mentioned  or  for  judicial  officers.  The  form  of  such  ballot 
shall  be  the  same  as  prescribed  for  non-partisan  election  of 
judges,  in  Section  3  of  Chapter  74  of  the  Session  Laws  of  1915, 
and  the  names  of  said  nominees  for  the  said  school  offices  shall 
be  arranged  the  same  as  provided  in  said  Section  3  of  Chapter 


22  SCHOOL  LAW'S  OF  WYOMING 

74  of  the  Session  Laws  of  1915,  for  the  arrangement  of  names 
for  the  judicial  offices.     [L.  1917,  Chap.  59,  Sec.  3.] 

Voters  Not  Required  to  Declare  Party  Affiliation. 

Sec.  58.  At  said  primary  election  for  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  or  for  judicial  officers,  any  qualified  elec- 
tor of  the  precinct  shall  be  permitted  to  vote  for  the  nom- 
ination of  non-partisan  officers  without  being  required  to  state 
any  party  affiliation,  and  the  provisions  of  Chapter  23  of  the 
Session  Laws  of  1911  and  any  iand  all  amendments  thereto  that 
require  an  elector  to  state  his  party  affiliation  when  voting  at 
a  primary,  shall  not  apply  to  those  electors  who  vote  only  the 
non-partisan  ballot. 

Any  elector  offering  to  vote  at  such  primary  election  for 
non-partisan  officers  only  shall,  unless  he  has  been  recorded 
as  voting  at  the  last  preceding  general  primary  election,  be 
required  to  take  the  oath  contained  in  Section  4  of  Chapter 
128  of  the  Session  Laws  of  1913.  And  any  such  elector  offering 
to  vote  for  non-partisan  officers  only  and  not  offering  to  vote 
a  party  ticket,  shall  be  registered  by  the  judges  of  election 
in  the  poll  book  undler  ia  separate  column  headed  "Non-Par- 
tisan." 

The  method  of  voting  and  of  accounting  and  certifying  the 
returns  shall  in  all  respects  be  governed  by  the  provisions  of 
Chapter  74  of  the  Session  Laws  of  1915  relative  to  the  nomi- 
nation of  non-partisan  judges,  except  insofar  as  the  same  may 
be  modified  or  changed  by  this  Act.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  59,  Sec.  4.] 

Ballots  for  General  Election. 

Sec.  59.  After  said  primary  election  held  as  aforesaid, 
the  county  clerk  or  other  official  whose  duty  it  is  to  prepare 
the  official  ballot  for  the  general  election  to  be  held  in  this 
State,  shall  prepare  a  separate  'ballot  similar  and  substan- 
tially in  the  same  general  form,  and  the  names  rotated  on  said 
ballot  as  herein  provided  for  the  nomination  of  said  school 
officers  at  the  primary  election,  and  as  provided  in  Chapter  74, 
Session  Laws  of  1915,  for  the  nomination  of  judicial  officers; 
and  the  two  candidates  receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes 
at  the  primary  election  for  each  of  said  offices  shall  be  entitled 
to  have  their  names  printed  on  the  official  non-partisan  ballot 
at  the  general  election.  Said  ballot  for  non-partisan  officers 
may  contain  judicial  officers  and  the  same  school  officers,  ar- 
ranged, however,  in  separate  columns,  but  such  non-partisan 
ballot  shall  be  separate  from  the  regular  ballot  used  at  such 
election  and  shall  be  deposited  in  a  separate  ballot  box,  the 
same  as  in  voting  upon  constitutional  amendments.  The  can- 
didate receiving  the  highest  number  of  votes  at  said  general 
election  shall  be  declared  duly  elected  to  the  office  for  which 
said  person  was  a  candidate.  In  all  other  respects  the  procedure 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  23 

for  the  nomination  and  election  to  the  offices  herein  referred 
to  shall  be  regulated  by  the  provisions  of  the  statutes  relating 
to  primary  and  general  elections  in  force  in  this  State  so  far  as 
they  are  applicable.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  59,  Sec.  5.] 

Sec.  60.  All  acts  and  parts  of  Acts  in  conflict  with  the 
provisions  of  this  Act  are  hereby  expressly  repealed  and 
Chapter  74,  Sessions  Laws  of  1915,  is  hereby  modified  to  con- 
form to  the  provisions  of  this  Act.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  59,  Sec.  6.] 

Uniforms  for  School  Cadets. 

Sec.  61.  The  sum  of  Ten  Thousand  Dollars,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any 
funds  in  the  State  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for  the 
purchase  of  uniforms  for  the  members  of  all  public  school  cadet 
organizations  in  the  State,  which  adopt  military  setting-up  exer- 
cises, drill  and  calisthenics  and  conduct  the  same  according 
to  requirements,  rules  and  regulations  laid  down  by  the  State 
Adjutant  General.  Such  uniforms  shall  be  chosen,  purchased, 
distributed  and  used  in  accordance  with  the  directions  of  the 
Adjutant  General,  and  this  appropriation  shall  be  expended 
under  direction  of  the  Adjutant  General  by  vouchers  rendered 
in  the  regular  form  to  the  State  Auditor  and  approved  by  the 
Adjutant  General.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  144,  Sec.  66.] 

High  School  Districts  May  Accept  Gifts. 

Sec.  62.  High  school  districts  within  the  State  of  Wyoming: 
organized  as  provided  in  Chapter  142,  Wyoming  Compiled 
Statutes  of  1910,  are  hereby  authorized  to  receive  any  and  all 
property  that  may  be  donated,  devised,  bequeathed  or  given,, 
for  educational  purposes  in  this  State,  or  for  any  of  the  pur- 
poses for  which  said  High  schools  are  organized  as  provided  in 
said  Chapter  142  or  any  and  all  amendments  thereto,  and  may 
apply  said  devices,  bequests,  gifts  or  donations  to  the  purposes 
and  for  the  objects  for  which  they  may  be  so  devised,  be- 
queathed, given  or  donated.  [L.  1917,  Chap.  73,  Sec.  1.] 

Distribution  of  School  Funds. 

Sec.  63.  On  or  before  the  31st  day  of  March  in  every 
year,  if  there  shall  be  any  money  to  the  credit  of  the  income 
fund,  for  the  use  of  public  schools,  in  the  State  treasury, 
including  the  rents  of  the  unsold  school  lands,  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  shall  distribute  such  income 
among  the  several  counties  of  the  State  according  to  the  num- 
ber of  children  of  school  age  in  each,  the  same  to  be  determined 
by  reference  to  the  last  preceding  annual  reports  furnished 
to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  by  the  several 
County  Superintendents  of  Schools.  Such  moneys  so  distributed 
shall  be  paid  to  the  county  treasurer  of  each  county  by  the 
State  treasurer,  upon  the  requisition  to  that  effect  by  the  State 


24  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  which  said  requisition 
shall  state  the  county  entitled  thereto,  together  with  the 
amount,  and  the  fund  out  of  which  it  is  paid ;  and  the  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  shall  at  the  same  time  notify 
each  Superintendent  of  Schools  that  such  distribution  has  been 
made;  such  requisition  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  warrant 
of  the  auditor  upon  the  treasurer  covering  the  amount  of 
the  requisition  in  each  case,  and  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  shall  file  such  requisition  with  the  auditor  and  a 
copy  of  the  same  with  the  treasurer.  Upon,  such  distribution 
being  made  and  said  money  being  paid  to  the  respective  county 
treasurers,  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  each  county 
shall  cause  such  money  to  be  distributed  among  the  several 
school  districts  in  the  county  pro  rata  in  the  same  manner  and 
in  the  same  proportion  as  the  regular  county  school  tax  is  re- 
quired by  law  to  be  distributed.  Provided,  however,  That  any 
law  with  reference  to  the  distribution  of  the  county  school 
tax  which  provides  for  a  certain  amount  to  'be  paid  to  each 
school  district  before  the  pro  rata  distribution  of  the  balance 
is  made  shall  not  apply  in  the  case  of  the  distribution  of  said 
money ;  Provided,  further,  That  no  apportionment  from  said 
State  fund  shall  be  made  to  any  school  district  for  a  year  in 
which  ia  school  has  not  been  maintained  therein  for  at  least 
three  months.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  135.] 

Board  of  Trustees. 

!Sec.  64.  The  government  of  the  university  shall  vest  in 
a  Board  of  nine  Trustees  to  be  aptpointed  by  the  Governor, 
three,  and  only  three,  of  whom  shall  at  all  times  be  residents 
of  the  county  of  Albany,  together  with  thie  President  of  the 
university  and  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
as  members  ex-officio,  as  such  having  the  right  to  speak  but  not 
to  vote.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  413.] 

Board — Who  Members. 

Sec.  65.  The  Governor,  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  State 
Treasurer,  the  State  Auditor  and  the  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  shall  constitute  and  shall  hereafter  be  known 
as  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and  Reform.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
436.] 

Secretary  of  Board. 

See.  66.  The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall 
be  Secretary  of  the  Boiard,  and  shall  keep  a  careful  record  of 
the  transactions  of  the  Board  in  a  substantial  and  bound  book, 
to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  and  which  shall  be  known  as  the 
records  and  proceedings  of  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and 
Reform ;  he  shall  countersign  (all  papers,  instruments,  or  docu- 
ments approved,  made,  or  directed  by  the  Board ;  he  shall  also, 


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for  the  Board  and  under  its  direction,  make  a  biennial  report 
to  the  Governor,  during  the  month  of  December  in  each)  even 
numbered  year,  showing  clearly  and  succintly  the  condition  of 
all  institutions  under  the  control  or  supervision  of  said  Board, 
whether  general  or  direct,  giving  the  number  of  inmates  there- 
in, their  ages,  sex,  condition,  religious  belief,  conduct,  and 
all  other  matters  pertaining  thereto,  and  such  report  shall  also 
contain  such  recommendations  as  the  Board  may  see  fit  to 
make  to  the  Governor,  or  the  legislature,  as  shall  tend  to  ameli- 
orate the  condition  of  the  inmates  of  such  institutions,  that 
may  tend  to  prevent  crime,  and  as  the  claims  of  humanity  and 
the  public  good  may  require.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  443.] 

School  Land  Board. 

Sec.  67.  The  Governor,  Secretary  of  State,  State  Treas- 
urer and  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  being  consti- 
tuted a  Board  of  Land  Commissioners  by  the  provisions  of  sec- 
tion thirteen,  article  seven,  of  the  Constitution  of  the  State, 
they  shall,  as  such  Board,  have  the  direction,  control,  lease  and 
disposal  of  all  lands  heretofore  or  hereafter  granted  to  the 
State  for  the  support  and  benefit  of  public  schools.  'Said  Board 
shall  be  officially  known  land  designated  as  "the  State  Board  of 
School  Land  Commissioners",  and  shall  have  power  and  au- 
thority to  take  such  official  action,  as  may  be  at  any  time  neces- 
sary, in  making  the  selection  of  lands  granted  to  the  State  for 
public  school  purposes,  or  to  secure  to  the  State  the  transfer 
and  title  of  any  such  lands.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  602.) 


COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  SCHOOLS. 

Must  Hold  Teachers'  Certificate. 

Sec.  68.  No  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  re- 
ceive compensation  out  of  any  public  fund  for  his  services  as 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools  until  he  has  filed  with  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  a  Wyoming  teacher's  certifi- 
cate of  as  high  a  rank  as  first  class,  in  full  force  and  effect : 
and  the  said  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  be  required 
to  have  such  certificate  in  full  force  and  effect  during  his  term 
of  office  to  entitle  him  to  compensation  out  of  public  funds. 
[L.  1913,  Chap.  40,  Sec.  1.] 

Oath  and  Bond — Prohibited  from  Teaching. 

Sec.  69.  There  shall  be  in  each  organized  county  a  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Schools,  who  shall,  before  entering  upon 
the  duties  of  his  office,  take  the  oath  prescribed  by  the  constitu- 
tion and  give  bond  to  the  State  of  Wyomnig  in  the  penal  sum 
of  Five  Hundred  Dollars  for  the  faithful  performance  *of  all 
duties  required  of  him  by  law  as  such  superintendent,  to  be 


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approved  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners,  and'  together 
with  his  certificate  of  election  and  oath,  filed  in  the  county 
clerk 's  office ;  Provided,  That  no  person  shall  at  the  same  time 
hold  the  positions  of  County  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools 
and  teacher  in  any  public  school  in  his  or  her  county.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1296.] 

Salaries  of  County  Superintendents. 

Sec.  70.  County  Superintendents  of  Schools  shall  receive 
the  following  annual  salaries :  In  counties  having  an  assessed 
valuation  of  more  than  Five  Million  Dollars,  One  Thousand 
Dollars ;  in  counties  having  an  assessed  valuation  less  than  Five 
Million  Dollars,  and  counties  having  ian  assessed  valuation  of 
less  than  Two  Million  Dollars,  Five  Hundred  Dollars.  To- 
gether with  their  actual  and  necessary  traveling  expenses 
while  engaged  in  the  discharge  of  their  official  duties,  the  ac- 
count for  which  expenses,  before  being  allowed,  shall  be  stated 
in  separate  items,  accompanied  by  vouchers,  or  receipts  for 
all  items  amounting  to  Five  Dollars  or  more,  and  otherwise 
made  conformable  to  the  law.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  156,  Sec.  1.] 

NOTE — The  Attorney  General  has  ruled  that  the  above 
Chapter  should  read  as  follows:  "County  Superintendents  of 
Schools  shall  receive  the  following  annual  salaries:  In  coun- 
ties 'having  an  assessed  valuation  of  more  than  five  million 
dollars,  $1,000.00;  in  counties  having  an  assessed  valuation  of 
less  than  five  million  dollars  (here  should  be  read  into  the 
statute  the  words  and  figures  $750.00)  ;  and  counties  having  an 
assessed  valuation  of  less  than  two  million  dollars,  $500.00. ' ' 

Duties. 

Sec.  71.  The  duties  of  the  County  Superintendent  shall 
be  as  follows:  He  shall  on  or  before  the  fourth  Monday  of 
July  in  each  year,  transmit  to  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  a  report  containing  an  abstract  of  the  several  par- 
ticulars set  forth  in  the  report  of  the  district  clerks,  together 
with  a  statement  of  the  financial  .affairs  of  his  office,  and  such 
suggestions  as  he  shall  think  proper,  relative  to  the  schools  of 
his  county ;  he  shall  distribute  to  the  districts  within  his  county 
such  blank  forms,  circulars  and  other  communications  as  may 
be  transmitted  to  him  for  that  purpose  by  the  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction.  [S.  L.  1907,  Ch.  15,  Sec.  3 ;  C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  1298.] 

Office  and  Records  of  County  Superintendent  of  Schools — Office 
at  County  Seat. 

Sec.  72.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners in  each  county  of  the  State  of  Wyoming,  to  provide 
an  office  for  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  at  the 
county  seat,  suitably  equipped  for  properly  transacting  the 


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duties  of  the  office  of  County  Superintendent,  and  the  County 
Superintendent  shall  keep  his  office  open  such  days  and  parts 
of  days  as  may  be  in  his  judgment  for  the  mutual  advantage  of 
himself  and  his  patrons.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  24,  Sec.  1.] 

Records. 

Sec.  73.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintendent 
of  Schools  to  keep  on  file  in  his  office,  a  full  and  complete 
record  of  the  official  transactions  of  his  office,  including  copies 
of  all  reports  received  by  him  in  his  official  capacity  and  made 
by  him  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  [L. 
1913,  Chap.  24,  Sec.  2.] 

Clerk  to  Certify  Number  of  Teachers. 

Sec.  74.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  each  school  district,  including  high  school  district, 
to  file  with  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  of  the  county 
within  which  such  school  district  lies,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  July  each  year,  a  certificate  showing  the  number  of 
teachers  employed  within  said  school  district  during  the  pre- 
ceding year;  Provided,  That  after  the  year  1913  every  teacher 
for  whom  credit  shall  be  claimed  in  such  certificate  must  have 
been  engaged  in  teaching  in  said  district  for  at  least  six  school 
months  during  the  said  school  year,  or  in  conjunction  with  a 
predecessor  shall  have  taught  for  said  period. 

Provided  that  in  a  school  district  continuing  a  high  school 
up  to  that  time  previously  conducted  by  ia  high  school  dis- 
trict, of  which  it  was  a  part,  the  six  months'  service  in  the 
district  of  each  high  school  teacher  employed  shall  be  esti- 
mated by  crediting  the  teacher  with  the  time  of  service  im- 
mediately preceding,  or  in  conjunction  with  the  predecessor, 
with  time  of  service  in  the  school  year  preceding  as  teacher 
in  said  high  school  district ; 

And  provided  further,  that  no  credit  shall  be  claimed  for 
a  teacher  in  <a  grade  school  where  the  average  number  of 
pupils  in  attendance  during  the  preceding  school  year  has 
been  less  than  six  pupils  per  teacher,  nor  for  a  teacher  in  a 
high  school  where  the  average  attendance  has  been  less  than 
ten  pupils  per  teacher.  [L.  1915,  Chiap.  159,  Sec.  1.] 

Duty  of  County  Superintendent. 

Sec.  75.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  County  Superin- 
tendent to  verify  and  correct  said  certificate  and  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  August  in  each  year  to  file  with  the  county 
clerk  a  certificate  showing  the  number  of  said  teachers  during 
the  preceding  school  year  in  each  of  the  school  districts,  in- 
cluding high  school  districts,  in  the  county.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  52, 
Sec.  2.] 


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County  School  Tax  Limit. 

Sec.  76.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners of  each  county  to  levy  a  general  school  tax  upon  all 
property  within  the  county  in  an  amount  sufficient  to  raise 
three  hundred  dollars  for  each  teacher  within  said  county  as 
certified  to  by  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools ;  Provided, 
That  said  levy  shall  not  exceed  three  mills  upon  the  dollar. 
[L.  1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  7,  as  amended  by  L.  1913,  Chap.  52, 
Sec.  3.] 

Apportionment  of  Taxes. 

Sec.  77.  On  the  first  Monday  of  February  in  each  year, 
commencing  with  the.  year  1914,  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools  shall  apportion  the  county  school  tax  and  all  money  in 
the  county  treasury  belonging  to  the  county  school  fund,  in- 
cluding poll  taxes,  fines  and1  forfeitures,  among  the  several 
school  districts,  including  high  school  districts,  in  proportion 
to  the  number  of  teachers  within  the  respective  districts  dur- 
ing the  preceding  school  year  as  determined  by  the  certificate 
of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  filed  with  the  county 
clerk;  he  shall  record  a  statement  of  such  apportionment  in 
his  office  and  shall  also  notify  the  county  treasurer  of  the  same ; 
he  shall  thereupon  immediately  draw  an  order  on  the  county 
treasurer,  in  favor  of  the  treasurer  of  each  school  district  for 
the  amount  due  it  from  said  funds,  and  transmit  the  same  to 
the  treasurer  of  the  district,  which  dnaft  the  county  treasurer 
shall  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  the  school  district  upon  presenta- 
tion, properly  endorsed.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1299;  L.  1911,  Chap. 
90,  Sec.  1 ;  L.  1913,  Chap.  52t  Sec.  4.] 

Supplementary  Apportionment. 

Sec.  78.  Should  no  apportionment  of  the  school  funds 
be  made  on  the  first  Monday  in  February,  as  required  in  this 
chapter,  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  make  an 
apportionment  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  in  the  same 
manner  as  hereinbefore  provided.  He  may  also,  at  any  time, 
make  a  supplementary  apportionment  of  the  money  paid  into 
the  county  school  fund  subsequent  to  the  time  of  the  first  ap- 
portionment on  account  of  taxes  or  poll  taxes  due  for  the  pre-v 
ceding  year,  such  apportionment  to  be  made  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  provided  in  Section  1299.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1300;  L. 
1911,  Chap.  90;  L.  1913,  Chap.  52,  Sec.  5.] 

Duplicate  Remittance  Slips. 

Sec.  79.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  County  Superintendents  of 
Schools  and  county  treasurers  when  remitting  funds  to  school 
district  treasurers  to  advise  the  clerks  of  such  districts  of  each 
and  every  remittance  by  issuing  duplicate  remittance  slips  giv- 
ing date  and  amount  of  remittance,  sending  one  w^ith  remit- 


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tanee  to  the  district  treasurer  and  one  to  the  district  clerk. 
[L.  1913,  Chap.  15,  Sec.  1.] 

District  Boundary  Board — Members  and  Duties. 

Sec.  80.  The  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  and  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall  constitute  a  board  for 
laying  off  their  county  into  convenient  school  districts,  such 
Board  to  be  styled  "The  District  Boundary  Board".  Said 
Board  shall  divide  the  county  into  school  districts,  and  may 
alter  and  change  the  boundaries  of  the  districts  as  formed 
from  time  to  time  as  the  convenience  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
aforesaid  districts  may  require,  and  shall  proceed  to  make  such 
change,  as  in  the  judgment  of  the  said  Board'  may  seem  wise, 
at  any  time  when  petitioned  by  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters 
of  all  the  districts  whether  organized  and  existing  or  proposed, 
which  shall  be  affected  by  such  division  or  change  of  boun- 
daries. And  the  District  Boundary  Board  shall  abolish  or 
join  in  a  contiguous  district  any  school  district  in  which  no 
school  has  been  maintained  for  twelve  consecutive  months,  and 
all  funds  to  the  credit  of  such  district  so  abolished  or  joined 
to  another  district  shall  be  returned  to,  and  become  a  part  of 
the  general  school  fund  of  the  county ;  Provided,  That  nothing 
in  this  chapter  shall  be  construed  as  to  prevent  the  District 
Boundary  Board  from  joining  any  school  district,  having  less 
than  eight  pupils,  to  any  other  school  district  lying  contiguous 
thereto,  if,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Board,  it  will  be  for  the 
benefit  of  the  public  schools  so  to  join  such  districts.  [L.  1913, 
Chap.  42,  Sec.  1.] 

Chairman  and  Secretary. 

Sec.  81.  The  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners shall  act  as  Chairman  of  the  District  Boundary  Board. 
The  Board  shall  be  authorized  to  transact  business  as  a  Board 
when  the  County  Superintendent  and  two  members  of  the  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  are  present.  The  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  shall  act  as  Secretary  of  the  District  Boun- 
dary Board  and  shall  keep  an  accurate  record  showing  the 
boundaries  of  all  the  districts  in  his  county  so  established  and 
organized  and  any  revisions  or  changes  in  boundaries  made  by 
the  said'  Board.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  42,  Sec.  2.] 
Notice  to  District  Clerk. 

Sec.  82.  When  the  District  Boundary  Board  shall  have 
established  a  new  district  or  shall  have  altered  or  changed  the 
boundaries  of  any  district  or  districts,  the  County  Superin- 
tendent shall  promptly  notify,  in  writing,  the  clerk  of  the 
district  board  in  each  of  the  districts  so  affected,  giving  in 
said  notice  the  number  of  the  district  or  districts  affected  and 
describing  their  boundaries.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  42,  Sec.  3.] 


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Corporate  City  in  One  District. 

Sec.  83.  Whenever  the  District  Boundary  Board  shall 
establish  a  new  district  or  change  the  boundaries  of  existing 
districts,  such  establishment  or  change  shall  be  made  so  as  to 
keep  all  territory,  embraced  in  any  corporate  city  or  village,  in 
one  school  district,  but  the  District  Boundary  Board  may  in- 
clude in  any  such  school  district  territory  not  within  such  cor- 
porate boundaries;  and  said  Boundary  Board  is  hereby  au- 
thorized to  change  without  presentation  of  a  petition,  the 
boundaries  of  any  school  district  or  districts  so  that-  all  the 
territory  embraced  in  a  corporate  city  or  village  shall  be  in  one 
district.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  42,  Sec.  4.] 

Appeal. 

Sec.  84.  A  majority  of  the  voters  in  any  district  affected 
by  the  changed  boundary,  or  a  majority  of  such  voters  dis- 
satisfied by  the  formation  of  any  new  district,  shall  have  the 
right  to  appeal  from  the  District  Boundary  Board  to  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  whose  decision  shall  be 
final  in  the  matter.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  42,  Sec.  5.] 

Funds  of  New  Districts. 

Sec.  85.  Whenever  the  District  Boundary  Board  shall 
have  formed  or  established  a  new  district  from  districts  already 
legally  organized,  the  School  Board  of  such  newly  organized 
district  may  draw  the  public  school  funds  for  paying  teachers 
or  other  necessary  legal  school  expenses  from  the  school  treas- 
ury of  the  district  from  which  it  was  separated  until  such  a 
time  as  the  newly  organized  district  shall  receive  its  proper 
apportionment  of  school  moneys  and  taxes.  In  like  manner, 
any  district  which  is  established  from  two  or  more  districts 
may  draw  the  proper  school  expenses  for  payment  of  teachers 
or  other  necessary  legal  school  expenses  from  the  treasury  of 
the  districts  to  which  the  said  new  school  district  formerly 
belonged.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  42,  Sec.  6.] 

Recommend  Dismissal  of  Incompetent  Teachers — Visits. 

Sec.  86.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  have  the  gen- 
eral superintendence  of  the  schools  of  the  county,  and  shall 
visit  each  school  at  least  once  in  each  term,  and  shall  have 
power  to  recommend  for  dismissal  all  teachers  he  may  find  to 
be  incompetent;  Provided,  That  before  any  teacher  shall  be 
dismissed  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Superintendent  to  specify 
charges,  in  writing,  against  said  teacher,  and  shall  file  the  same 
with  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  school  district  wherein  said 
teacher  is  employed,  and  upon  such  charges  a  hearing  shall 
be  had  in  the  presence  of  the  Board,  and  if  in  their  judgment 
the  charges  as  preferred  are  well  sustained,  then  the  said  Board 
may  proceed  to  dismiss  said  teacher.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1302.] 


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Failure  to  Make  Report — Penalty. 

Sec.  87.  Should  he  fail  to  make  his  reports,  as  required 
in  this  chapter,  he  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dol- 
lars, and  suit  shall  be  brought  on  his  official  bond  for  the  col- 
lection of  the  siarne,  with  damages,  by  the  prosecuting  attor- 
ney. [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1303.] 

Supervisory  and  Appellate  Authority. 

Sec.  88.  He  shall  see  that  the  annual  reports  of  the  clerks 
of  the  several  school  districts  in  his  county  are  made  correctly 
and  in  due  time,  and  shall  hear  and  determine  all  appeals  from 
the  decision  of  the  District  Boards.  [C.  S,  1910,  Sec.  1304.] 

County  Teachers'  Institutes. 

Sec.  89.  The  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  shall  hold 
annually  at  some  convenient  place  a  county  teachers'  institute 
for  the  instruction  and  advancement  of  teaching.  Said  institute 
shall  continue  not  less  than  four  days  nor  more  than  eight  days. 
The  County  Superintendent  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  and 
shall  determine  the  time  and  place  for  holding  such  meetings. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  teachers  (actually  engaged  in  teaching 
or  having  either  a  written  or  verbal  contract  to  teach  in  such 
county,  to  attend  such  institute,  unless  they  shall  have  a  writ- 
ten excuse  signed  by  the  County  Superintendent ;  and  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  may,  at  his  discretion, 
upon  the  written  complaint  of  the  County  Superintendent,  re- 
voke the  certificate  or  refuse  to  grant  ia  certificate  to  any 
teacher  who  refuses  to  .attend  the  county  institute  held  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  this  act ;  Provided,  That  a  cer- 
tificate signed  by  a  regularly  practicing  physician  of  the  in- 
ability of  any  such  teacher  to  attend  such  institute,  or  the 
affidavit  of  two  citizens  of  the  county  that  said  teacher  was  un- 
able to  attend  such  institute  because  of  storms,  floods  or  other 
conditions  beyond  the  control  of  said  teacher,  shall  operate  to 
exempt  said  teacher  from  the  provisions  of  this  act.  Each 
teacher  who  attends  institute  shall  be  given  by  the  County 
Superintendent,  ia  certificate  setting  forth  the  num'ber  of  days 
of  said  institute  such  teacher  shall  have  been  in  attendance, 
and  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  withhold  the  salary  of  any 
teacher  who  shall  not  produce  the  said  certificate  of  attend- 
ance or  an  excuse  from  the  County  Superintendent  for  the  time 
that  he  should  have  been  in  attendance  at  the  institute.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  each  District  Board  to  pay  all  teachers 
who  attend  such  institute  the  same  salary  per  day  that  would 
have  been  paid  had  the  same  amount  of  time  been  expended 
in  teaching.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Boards  of  Com- 
missioners in  eacli  county  to  appropriate  annually,  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  dollars  ($250.00)  in  counties  having  an  assessed 
valuation  of  more  than  five  million  dollars  ($5,000,000.00)  ;  two 


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hundred  dollars  ($200.00)  in  counties  having  an  assessed  valua- 
tion of  more  than  two  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars 
($2,500,000.00)  ;  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  ($150.00)  in 
counties  having  an  assessed  valuation  of  more  than  one  mil- 
lion four  hundred  thousand  dollars  ($1,400,000.00)  and  not 
exceeding  two  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  ($2,500,- 
000.00),  for  the  payment  of  such  instructors  or  lecturers  as  the 
County  Superintendent  may  employ  to  assist  in  holding  the 
county  institute,  arid  no  part  of  the  amount  appropriated  shall 
be  paid  out  by  the  County  Commissioners  to  the  lecturers  or 
instructors  or  any  other  expanse  incurred  by  the  County  Super- 
intendent for  county  institute  purposes  unless  ordered  by  the 
County  Superintendent.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1305;  L.  1913,  Chap. 
44,  Sec.  1.] 

Joint  Institutes. 

Sec.  90.  Two  or  more  counties  may,  at  the  discretion  of 
their  County  Superintendents,  unite  for  the  purpose  of  holding 
a  joint  annual  institute  at  such  place  as  may  be  agreed  upon  by 
such  Superintendents,  and  all  the  provisions  of  Section  1305 
shall  apply  to  such  joint  institute.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1305;  L. 
1913,  Chap.  44,  Sec.  2.] 

Deputy  County  Superintendent. 

Sec.  91.  In  counties  of  the  first,  second  and  third  class, 
the  County  Superintendent,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners,  may  appoint  Deputy  County 
Superintendents,  to  be  paid  by  the  county  a  compensation  of 
Three  Dollars  ($3.00)  per  diem  while  actually  engaged  as  such 
Deputy ;  Provided,  however,  that  in  no  case  shall  the  amount  so 
appropriated  by  any  county  for  such  Deputy  exceed  the  sum  of 
Nine  Hundred  Dollars  ($900.00)  in  first  class  counties,  Six 
Hundred  Dollars  ($600.00)  in  second  class  counties,  and  Four 
Hundred  Dollars  ($400.00)  in  third  class  counties.  [L.  1919, 
Chap.  139,  Sec.  8.] 

Duty  of  the  County  Superintendent. 

Sec.  92.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintendent 
of  Schools  to  cause  the  subjects  prescribed  in  the  course  of 
study  to  be  taught  in  the  public  schools  of  his  county  and  the 
work  of  instruction  to  be  pursued  as  planned  therein;  Pro- 
vided, That  a  principal  or  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  any 
district  who  has.  supervision  over  three  or  more  teachers  may 
amend  and  change  the  course  of  study  prescribed  by  the  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  in  such  manner  as  will, 
in  his  judgment,  apply  more  directly  to  the  local  conditions  of 
such  district.  Except  elemination  of  the  prescribed  subjects. 
[L.  1913,  Chap.  53,  Sec.  2.] 


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City  Superintendents  and  Others  Report  Failure. 

Sec.  93.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  several  City  Superin- 
tendents of  Schools  in  the  State  and1  of  the  clerk  and  Board  of 
Directors  of  all  other  educational  institutions  receiving  aid 
from  the  State,  to  report  to  the  County  Superintendent  o1 
Schools  any  failure  or  neglect  on  the  part  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  any  school  district,  or  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
any  educational  institution  receiving  aid  from  the  State,  to 
make  proper  provision  for  the  teaching  of  those  branches  pre- 
scribed in  the  State  course  of  study  issued  by  authority  and 
through  the  office  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction in  any  or  all  of  the  schools  or  other  educational  insti- 
tutions under  their  charge  or  over  which  they  have  jurisdiction. 
[L.  1913,  Chap.  53,  Sec.  3.] 

Eligibility  to  Share  in  Annual  Apportionment. 

Soc.  94.  The  County  Superintendent  shall  apportion  an- 
nually his  county's  share  of  the  State  school  land  income  fund 
only  to  those  districts  in  which  the  subjects  prescribed  in  this 
act  have  been  taught  as  required,  the  County  Superintendent 
determining  from  the  annual  report  of  the  district  officers1  the 
eligibility  of  the  districts  to  share  in  the  apportionment.  [L. 
1913,  Chap.  53,  Sec.  4.] 

COUNTY  LIBRARIES. 

Tax  to  Be  Levied — Amount. 

Sec.  95.  When  the  County  Commissioners  of  any  county 
have  received  proper  and  sufficient  guarantees,  whether  in  the 
form  of  conveyances,  or  bonds  of  citizens,  or  associations  or 
corporations,  that  a  suitable  place  will  be  penmanently  fur- 
nished1 for  the  protection  and  use  of  a  public  library  as  a  con- 
dition precedent  to  their  own  action,  under  the  provisions  of 
this  chapter,  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  levy  annually  a  tax  of  not 
less  than  one-eighth  of  a  mill  nor  more  than  one-half  of  a 
mill  on  the  dollar  on  all  taxable  property  in  the  county,  for 
the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  a  public  library  to  be 
located  at  the  county  seat  of  such  county.  And  whenever  a 
suitable  place  is  furnished  without  rent  for  the  use  of  any 
county  library,  the  directors  thereof  shall  have  the  power  to 
pay  such  incidental  expenses  as  may  be  necessary  in  keeping  in 
repair  and  properly  janitored,  lighted,  heated  and  cared  for, 
the  place  so  furnished,  and  to  pay  the.  expense  thereof  out  of 
the  taxes  levied  hereunder.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1316.] 

How  Tax  Levied  and  Collected. 

Sec.  96.  The  tax  authorized  by  the  preceding  section 
shall  be  levied  and  collected  at  the  same  time  and  in  the  same 
manner  as  other  county  taxes  of  such  county  are  levied  and 


34  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

collected,  and  the  whole  amount  so  collected  shall  be  set  apart 
and  shall  be  designated  the  county  library  fund;  Provided, 
That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  'be  construed  into  author- 
izing any  additional  levy  to  that  now  authorized  by  law.  [G.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1317.] 

Board  of  Directors — Appointment. 

Sec.  97.  The  control  and  use  of  said  library  fund  shall 
be  entrusted  by  the  County  Commissioners  of  any  county  to 
three  competent  and  responsible  citizens  of  the  county,  to  be 
appointed  by  said  commissioners  and  to  constitute  a  board  of 
directors  for  this  purpose.  As  soon  as  appointed  they  shall  in- 
corporate as  a  body,  with  ian  appropriate  name.  They  shall 
serve  without  compensation  and  the  treasurer  of  the  board 
shall  give  bonds,  to  be  approved  by  the  County  Commissioners, 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties.  It  shall  be  their 
duty,  upon  notification  from  the  County  Commissioners1  that  a 
library  fund  is  at  their  disposal,  to  expend  so  much  of  the  said 
fund  ias  shall  be  found  available,  in  the  purchase  of  books,  fur- 
niture, salaries  of  librarian  and  assistants,  and  incidental  ex- 
penses for  the  library  herein  provided  to  be  established;  Pro- 
vided, That  the  books  so  purchased1  shall  be  of  a  kind  best 
suited  to  inform  the  mind  and  improve  the  character  of  the 
reader;  that  neither  sectarian  nor  professional  books  shall  be 
purchased  out  of  such  fund,  and  that  not  exceeding  twenty-five 
per  centum  of  such  fund  so  expended  shall  be  used  for  the  pur- 
chase of  works  of  fiction;  the  said  trustees  appointed  by  the 
County  Commissioners1  shall  hold  office,  one-third  for  one  year, 
one-third  for  two  years,  and  one-third  for  three  years  from  the 
1st  day  of  July  following  their  appointment,  and  at  their 
regular  meeting  shall  east  lots  for  the  respective  terms ;  and 
annually  thereafter  the  County  Commissioners  shall,  before  the 
1st  day  of  July  of  each  year,  appoint,  as  before,  one  director 
to  take" the  place  of  the  retiring  director,  who  shall  hold  office 
for  three  years  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed.  The 
County  Commissioners  may  remove  any  director  for  misconduct 
or  neglect  of  duty.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1318.] 

Donations — Location  of  Library — Librarian. 

Sec.  98.  The  said  Board  of  Directors  is  authorized  to  re- 
ceive donations  of  real  estate,  money  or  books,  in  aid  of  the 
establishment  or  maintenance  of  the  library,  for  which  said 
directors  are  herby  made  responsible,  and,  as  trustees  of  the 
donor,  shall  carefully  observe  the  conditions  accompanying 
every  such  gift,  and  if  any  incorporated  literary  or  library 
association  shall  donate  to  such  county  library,  property  equal 
in  value  to  one  thousand  dollars,  or  shall  annually  contribute 
to  its  resources  a  sum  exceeding  two  hundred  and  fifty  dol- 
lars in  money,  such  association  shall  be  entitled  to  name  one 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  35 

person  to  be  an  associate  member  of  said  Board  of  Trustees,  who 
shall  have  tall  the  rights,  privileges  and  responsibilities  of  the 
other  members  thereof.  When  no  provision  can  be  made  for 
otherwise  furnishing  the  library  with  the  necessary  accommo- 
dations for  its  books  and  other  publications,  without  expense 
to  the  library  fund  arising  from  the  public  tax,  it  shall  'be  the 
duty  of  the  Board  of  School  Trustees  or  directors  of  the  school 
district  embracing  the  county  seat,  to  provide  accommodations 
for  them  in  the  best  situated  school  building  over  which  such 
Board  of  School  Trustees  have  control.  The  Board  of  Directors 
shall  also  appoint  a  competent  person  to  have  the  immediate 
charge  of  the  library,  with  such  duties  and  compensation  for 
services  as  they  shall  fix  and  determine.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
1319.] 

Libraries  to  Be  Free. 

Sec.  99.  Every  library  established  '.and  maintained  un- 
der the  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  be  free  to  all  residents 
of  the  county  to  which  it  belongs,  on  the  condition  that  such 
persons  comply  with  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  safety 
and  management  of  the  library  as  the  Board  of  Directors  shall 
prescribe,  which  rules  and!  regulations  may  be  enforced  by 
legal  proceedings  in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction ;  Pro- 
vided, That  in  the  management  of  the  library,  the  best  possible 
provision  shall  be  made  for  the  convenient  use  of  the  books 
thereof  by  the  residents  of  such  county  residing  out  of  the 
town  wherein  the  library  is  sitated.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1320.] 

Board  of  Directors— Use  of  Books. 

Sec.  100.  It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  such  Board  of 
Directors  to  keep  a  careful  record  of  all  its  doings,  with  dupli- 
cate vouchers  for  all  expenditures,  one  set  of  such  vouchers 
to  be  kept  in  the  office  of  the  'Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors, the  other  to  be  filed  with  the  County  Commissioners  at 
the  end  of  each  calendar  year.  The  Board  of  Directors  shall 
also,  at  the  end  of  each  year,  report  to  the  County  Commis- 
sioners all  the  important  transactions  for  the  previous  twelve 
months,  specifying  in  each  report  the  sum  of  money  received 
from  the  county  library  fund,  also  the  moneys  and  property  re- 
ceived from  other  sources,  the  use  and  disposition  made  of  such 
moneys  and  other  property,  the  number  of  books  and  other 
publications  then  in  the  library,  the  number  of  books  and  other 
publications  added)  by  purchase  and  gift  during  the  year,  as 
well  as  the  number  of  books  lost  and  missing,  the  number,  title 
and  cost  of  books,  maps  and  charts  purchased  out  of  the  county 
library  fund,  the  number  of  books  loaned  out,  with  the  gen- 
eral character  of  such  books,  the  number  of  persons  who  have 
drawn  books  from  the  library  during  the  year,  and  the  num- 
ber of  visitors  thereto,  together  with  such  other  facts  deemed 


36  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

of  public  interest,  a  copy  of  which  report  shall  'be  furnished 
by  the  clerk  of  said  Board  of  County  Commissioners  for  pub- 
lication in  at  least  one  paper  of  general  circulation  in  the1 
county.  Only  persons1  resident  of  the  county  shall  be  allowed 
to  obtain  a  loan  of  books  from  the  library,  and  in  every  case 
when  books  are  lost  or  destroyed  by  such  parties,  or  withheld 
from  the  library  by  such  persons,  then  in  that  event  such  per- 
sons shall  be  responsible  for  the  loss  of  such  book  or  books, 
and  the  value  of  said  book  or  books  may  be  recovered  by 
proper  action  at  law  in  any  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  in 
the  county.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1321.] 


PUBLIC  INDEBTEDNESS. 

Indebtedness  in  Excess  of  Constitutional  Limit,  Void. 

Sec.  101.  Any  indebtedness  created  after  February  21, 
1899,  in  excess  of  the  limitation  of  the  constitution,  by  any 
county,  city,  town,  village,  or  other  sub-divison  of  the  State 
of  Wyoming  in  any  current  year,  defined'  as  from  the  first  Mon- 
day in  January  of  one  year  to  the  first  Monday  in  January  of 
the  next  year  ensuing,  in  excess  of  that  authorized  by  the  con- 
stitution of  the  State  and  for  the  payment  of  which  there  are  no 
available  revenues,  during  such  current  year,  shall  as  against 
such  county,  city,  town,  village,  or  other  sub-division  of  the 
State,  be  void  and  of  no  effect,  'but  any  officer  who  shall  par- 
ticipate in  creating  such  indebtedness,  and  the  sureties  on  his 
official  bond,  shall  be  personally  liable  to  the  holder,  or  holders, 
of  such  indebtedness  as  fully  as  if  such  indebtedness  had  been 
contracted  for  his  individual  benefit.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1353.] 


SCHOOL  DISTRICTS  —  ORGANIZATION  AND  GOVERN- 
MENT. 

Notice  of  Formation  of  New  District. 

Sec.  102.  Whenever  a  school  district  shall  be  formed  in 
any  county,  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  such 
county  shall,  within  fifteen  days  thereafter,  prepare  a  notice  of 
the  formation  of  such  district,  describing  its  boundaries  and 
stating  the  number  thereof,  and  appointing  a  time  and  place 
for  the  district  meeting.  lie  shall  cause  the  notice,  thus  pre- 
pared, to  be  posted  in  at  least  five  public  places  in  the  district, 
at  least  ten  days  before  the  time  appointed  for  such  meeting ; 
and  when  a  joint  district  is  derived  from  portions  of  two  or 
more  counties,  the  County  Superintendent  of  each  county,  from 
which  any  portion  of  the  new  district  is  taken,  shall  unite  in 
giving  the  customary  notices  and  the  new  district  shall  be  num- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  37 

bered  by  the  Superintendent  of  the  county  having  the  highest 
numlber  of  districts.     [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1926.] 

First  Election  of  Trustees — Officers  of  District. 

Sec.  103.  The  qualified  electors  of  a  school  district,  when 
assembled!  in  accordance  with  the  notice  required  in  section 
nineteen  hundred  and  twenty-six,  shall  organize  by  appointing 
a  chairman  and  a  secretary  who  shall  act  as  judges  of  election. 
They  shall  then  by  ballot  elect  three  trustees  possessing  the 
qualifications  of  electors  of  said  district,  and  the  name  of  each 
elector  shall  be  recorded  by  the  secretary,  and  they  shall  hold 
their  office  until  the  next  succeeding  annual  district  election 
and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and1  qualified.  The  said 
trustees  shall  constitute  a  Board  of  Directors  for  the  district  and 
shall,  as  soon  as  they  '.are  qualified,  choose  from  their  number 
a  director,  treasurer  and  clerk  of  the  district.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  1928.] 

Oath  of  Directors. 

'Sec.  104.  All  directors  of  the  Board  shall,  within  ten 
days  after  their  election,  appear  before  some  justice  of  the 
peace  or  other  person  qualified  to  -administer  oaths,  and  take 
an  oath  for  the  faithful  performance  of  their  duties  and  in 
accordance  with  law,  and  shall,  without  delay,  transmit  a  copy 
of  said  oath  in  writing  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Se.c.  1929.] 

Annual  Election  of  Trustees — District  Officers. 

Sec.  105.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law,  there 
shall  be  elected  in  each  organized  school  district  meeting  on 
the  first  Monday  in  May  of  each  year,  one  trustee,  who  shall 
hold  his  office  for  three  years  and  until  his  successor  is  duly 
elected  and  qualified.  If,  for  any  cause,  the  annual  election 
should  not  be  held  at  the  regular  annual  meeting,  a  special 
meeting  miay  be  held  for  that  purpose  if  so  specified  in  the 
notice  for  said  special  meeting.  The  trustees  together  shall 
constitute  a  Board  of  Directors  for  the  district,  and  shall,  im- 
mediately after  they  are  qualified,  elect  one  of  their  number  a 
director,  treasurer  and  clerk  of  the  district.  At  the  first  reg- 
ular annual  election  after  a  school  district  is  organized  there 
shall  be  three  trustees  elected,  one  to  hold  his  office  for  the 
term  of  three  years,  and  one  to  hold  his  office  for  the  term  of 
two  years,  and  one  for  the  term  of  one  year  and  until  their 
successors  are  elected  and  qualified,  and  thereafter  at  each 
such  annual  meeting  there  shall  be  one  trustee  elected  as  afore- 
said, for  the  term  of  three  years,  as  successor  to  the  outgoing 
member  of  the  Board,  and  all  of  said  trustees  herein  men- 
tioned shall  possess  the  qualifications  of  any  elector  in  said 
district,  and  shall  be  elected  by  ballot,  iand  the  name  of  each 


38  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING 

elector  voting  for  trustee  shall  be  recorded  by  the  secretary 
of  the  meeting,  and  such  record  shall  be  filed  with  the  district 
clerk.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1930.] 

Election  of  Trustees  Where  Number  Increased  to  Six. 

Sec.  106.  In  all  school  districts  in  this  State  containing 
a  population  of  one  thousand  or  more,  the  number  of  trustees 
may  be  increased!  to  six  at  any  annual  school  election  held 
hereafter,  if  the  majority  of  the  electors  at  such  annual  meet- 
ing, upon  taking  a  vote  by  ballot,  so  decide.  The  electors  shall 
then  proceed  by  ballot  to  elect  one  trustee  for  one  year,  one 
trustee  for  two  years,  and  two  trustees  for  three  years.  At  all 
annual  elections  held  thereafter  there  shall  be  elected  two 
trustees,  who  shall  hold  their  office  for  three  years,  or  until 
their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
1931.] 

School  District  Seal. 

Sec.  107.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  Board  of  School 
Directors  so  increased  to  six  members  to  provide,  at  the  ex- 
pense of  their  district,  and  for  said  district,  a  seal,  upon  which 

shall  be  engraved  the  words  * '  School  District  No , 

.  County,  Wyo.,"  stating  the  number 

of  the  district,  and  the  county  in  which  it  is  situated.  The  seal 
shall  be  in  possession  of  the  clerk  of  the  district.  It  shall  be 
affixed  to  all  communications  or  notices  required  by  law  to  be 
sent  or  published  by  such  School  Board,  and  to  all  warrants 
drawn  upon  the  treasurer  of  the  district.  [C.  S.  1910.  Sec. 
1932.] 

School  District  to  Be  Body  Corporate. 

Sec.  108.  Each  school  district  formed  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  title  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a  body  corporate  by 

the  name  and  style  of  ' '  School  District  No ,  in  the 

County  of and  State  of  Wyoming" ; 

and  in  that  name  it  may  hold  property  and  be  a  party  to  suits 
and  contracts,  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1933.] 

Regular  Meetings  of  District. 

'Sec.  109.  The  fiscal  year  shall  end  on  the  30th  day  of 
April  and  the  annual  school  meeting  of  each  school  district 
shall  be  held  on  the  first  Monday  of  May  in  each  year.  And, 
when  present,  the  director  and  clerk  shall  preside  as  chair- 
man and  secretary,  respectively,  of  such  meeting.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  1934.] 

Powers  of  District  Meeting. 

Sec.  110.  The  qualified  electors  of  the  district,  when  as- 
sembled, shall  have  power : 

1.  To  appoint  a  chairman  and  secretary,  in  the  absence 
of  the  regular  officers. 


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2.  To  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  as  occasion  may  re- 
quire. 

3.  To  determine  the  number  of  schools  which  shall  be 
established  in  the  district,  and  the  length  of  time  each  shall  be 
taught. 

4.  To  fix  the  site  of  each  school  house,  taking  into  con- 
sideration in  doing  so,  the  wants  and  necessities  of  the  people 
of  each  portion  of  the  district. 

5.  To  vote  such  sum  of  money  as  the  meeting  shall  deem 
sufficient  for  any  of  the  following  purposes:     To  supply  any 
deficiency  in  the  fund  for  the  payment  of  teachers;  to  pur- 
chase OP  lease   a  suitable  site   for  a  school  house,   or  school 
houses;  to  build,  rent  or  purchase  a  school  house,  or  school 
houses,   and  keep  in  repair  iand   furnish   the   same   with   the 
necessary  fuel  and  appendages ;  for  procuring  libraries  for  the 
schools,  books  and  stationery  for  the  use  of  the  Board  and 
district  meetings;  and  for  the  payment  of  all  other  contingent 
expenses  of  the  district. 

6.  To  direct  the  sale  or  other  disposition  to  be  made  of 
any  school  house,  or  the  site  thereof,  and  of  such  other  prop- 
erty, real  or  personal,  as  may  belong  to  the  district ;  and  to 
direct   the   manner  in  which  the   proceeds   arising   therefrom 
shall  be  applied. 

7.  To  vote  a  sum  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  in 
any  one  year,  to  procure  a  district  library,  consisting  of  such 
books  as  they  may  direct  any  person  to  procure. 

8.  To  delegate  .any  and  all  powers  specified  in  the  fore- 
going sub-divisions  to  the  District  Board;  Provided,  That  the 
District  Board  shall  not  have  power  to  vote  or  raise  money  as 
provided  in  sub-division  five. 

9.  To  transact  generally  such  business  as  may  tend  to 
promote  the  cause  of  education  in  accordance  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  and  succeeding  chapters.     [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1935.] 

NOTE — Bonds  may  not  be  voted  at  regular  district  meet- 
ing unless  special  notice  is  given.  See  Chapter  on  School  Dis- 
trict Bonds,  page  56. 

Objects  in  Voting  Money  to  Be  Designated, 

Sec.  111.  In  voting  money,  the  district  meetings  shall 
designate  the  respective  objects  for  which  the  same  is  raised, 
and  the  amount  to  be  raised  for  each  object,  and  the  aggre- 
gate amount  shall  be  assessed  and  collected,  as  provided  by 
law.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1936.] 

Meeting  May  Adopt  Rules  of  Order. 

Sec.  112.  They  may  adopt  rules  of  order,  not  incom- 
patible with  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  and!  the  instructions 
of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  for  the  government 


40  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

of  district  meetings,  and  may  alter  and  change  the  same  from 
time  to  time  ias  occasion  may  require,  and  may  prescribe  the 
manner  of  taking  the  sense  of  the  meeting  upon  any  question ; 
Provided,  That  the  last  specification  shall  not  apply  to  the  elec- 
tion of  officers.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1937.] 

Transfer  of  School  Funds. 

Sec.  113.  In  all  cases  where  there  are  moneys  belonging 
to  the  school  house  fund,  remaining  in  the  hands  of  the  dis- 
trict treasurer  of  any  school  district,  and  the  Board  of  Directors 
thereof  are  satisfied  that  such  moneys  are  not  required  to  build 
a  school  house  or  school  houses,  in  said  district,  or  repair  or 
furnish  the  same,  such  moneys  may  'be  transferred  and  accred- 
ited to  the  teachers'  fund,  and  applied  to  the  payment  of 
teachers.  And  the  Board  may  also  in  like  manner  transfer  ia 
surplus  of  the  teachers'  fund  to  the  fund  for  building  school 
houses  when  requiredi.  [C.  'S.  1910,  Sec.  1938.] 

Manner  of  Conducting  Annual  Meeting' — Election  of  Trustees. 
'Sec.  114.  At  the  regular  district  meeting  of  school  dis- 
tricts in  each  year,  at  the  time  now  provided  by  law  for  the 
election  of  trustees,  such  district  meeting  shall  be  opened  by 
proclamation  of  the  trustees,  at  the  hour  named  in  the  pub- 
lished or  posted  notice  for  the  meeting.  And  the  order  of 
business  at  such  meeting  shall  be : 

1.  Reading  and  consideration  of  the  report  of  the  clerk 
and  treasurer. 

2.  Voting  of  money  to  be  raised  by  special  tax. 

3.  Election  of  trustee  or  trustees. 

4.  Miscellaneous  business. 

[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1939.] 
Qualification  of  Electors. 

Sec.  115.  All  school  district  elections  shall  be  carried  011 
a,s  provided  by  law,  and  the  qualifications  of  voters  at  such 
elections  shall  be  the  same  as  at  any  other  election,  and  in  ad- 
dition thereto,  such  voter  shall  be  in  possession  of  a  tax  re- 
ceipt, from  the  tax  collector  of  the  county  in  which  such  elec- 
tion is  being  held,  showing  that  such  voter  is  a  property  owner 
in  such  school  district ;  Provided,  however,  That  the  tax  quali- 
fication mentioned  in  this  section  shall  apply  only  to  questions 
of  special  school  tax  appropriations  of  money  and  bonding 
such  school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1940.] 

Directors  Shall  Qualify. 

Sec.  116.  Said  directors  shall  qualify  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed for  directors  elected  upon  the  formation  of  a  new 
school  district ;  and,  in  case  they  neglect  or  refuse  to  do  so,  they 
shall  'be  suibject  to  the  same  penalty.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1941.] 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  4  I 

Meeting  of  Board. 

Sec.  117.  The  Board  of  Directors  may  hold  such  regular, 
special  or  adjourned  meetings  as  they  may  from  time  to  time 
determine.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1942.] 

Powers  and  Duties  of  District  Board. 

Sec.  118.  The  District  Board  shall  make  all  contracts, 
purchases,  payments  iand  sales,  necessary  to  carry  out  every 
vote  of  the  district,  for  procuring  any  site  for  a  school  house, 
renting,  repairing  or  furnishing  the  same,  and  disposing  there- 
of, or  for  keeping  a  school  therein,  and  performing  such  other 
duties  as  may  be  delegated  to  them  by  the  district  meeting. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1943.] 

Members  of  Board  May  Administer  Oaths. 

Sec.  119.  The  trustees  of  school  districts  are  hereby  sev- 
erally authorized  to  administer  oaths  within  their  respective 
counties  in  any  and  all  matters  pertaining  to  their  respective 
districts  and  the  business  thereof,  where  an  oath  is  or  shall 
be  required  by  law.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1944.] 

Authority  of  Board  to  Remove  Scholars. 

Sec.  120.  The  District  Board  shall  have  power  to  admit 
scholars  from  adjoining  districts,  and  remove  scholars  for  dis- 
orderly conduct;  and  when  scholars  are  admitted  from  other 
districts  the  District  Board  may,  in  their  discretion,  require  a 
tuition  fee  from  such  scholars.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1945.] 

When  Board  to  Advertise  for  Bids. 

Sec.  121.  Whenever  any  school  house  is  to, be  built  or 
any  repairs,  addition  or  improvement  costing  more  than  two 
hundred  dollars,  made  to  any  school  house  or  district  property, 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  district  shall  advertise  for  bids 
for  such  work,  and  in  all  cases  contract  the  same  to  the  lowest 
responsible  bidder.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1946.] 

Settlement  with  Treasurer — Report  to  District  Meeting. 

Sec.  122.  They  shall,  from  time  to  time,  examine  the  books 
and  accounts  of  the  treasurer,  and  make  settlement  with  him, 
and  shall,  iat  each  regular  meeting  of  the  district,  present  to 
the  same  a  full  statement  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  of 
the  district  and  such  other  matters  as  may  be  deemed  impor- 
tant. [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1947.] 

Visiting  Committee. 

Sec.  123.  They  shall  appoint  a  committee  from  their  own 
body  to  visit  the  respective  schools  of  the  district  monthly,  and 
to  aid  the  teachers  in  establishing  and  enforcing  rules  for  the 
government  of  schools,  and  see  that  the  teachers  keep  a  correct 
list  of  the  pupils,  the  time  which  they  attend  school,  the 


42  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

branches  of  learning  which  each  is  studying,  and  such  other 
matters  as  may,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board,  tend  to  promote 
the  welfare  of  the  school.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1948.] 

Auditing  and  Payment  of  Claims. 

Sec.  124.  They  shall  audit  and  allow  all  just  claims  against 
the  district,  and  the  directors  shall  draw  an  order  for  all  de- 
mands thus  audited,  on  the  district  treasurer.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
1949.] 

Special  District  Meetings — Requisites  of  Notice. 

Sec.  125.  They  shall,  upon  the  written  request  of  five 
legal  voters  of  the  district,  or  whenever  they  deem  it  expedient, 
call  special  meetings  thereof ;  but  in  all  such  cases,  the  notice  of 
such  meeting  shall  clearly  state  the  precise  object  for  which  it 
is  called,  and  time  and  place  at  which  it  is  to  be  held.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1950.] 

Vacancy  on  Board  of  Trustees — How  Filled. 

Sec.  126.  In  case  a  vacancy  in  any  District  School  Board 
shall  be  caused  by  the  resignation,  death  or  otherwise  of  any 
one  of  its  members,  such  vacancy  shall  be  filled)  by  appoint- 
ment of  the  District  Board,  and  -said  appointee  may  legally 
hold  such  office  until  the  next  annual  school  election  following 
said  appointment,  but  no  longer,  and  at  the  annual  election 
said  vacancy  shall  be  filled  in  the  same  way  and  manner  as 
authorized  by  law  for  the  annual  election  of  School  Trustees. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1951.] 

Bond  of  District  Treasurer. 

Sec.  127.  The  district  treasurer  shall  give  bonds  to  the 
district  in  such  penalty  and  with  such  sureties  as  the  Board 
of  the  County  Commissioners  shall  direct  and  approve,  condi- 
tioned for  the  faithful  application  of  all  money  which  may 
come  into  his  hands  by  virtue  of  his  office ;  Provided,  Said 
bonds  shall  not  exceed  one  <and  one-quarter  times  the  amount 
of  all  the  school  moneys  handled  by  the  treasurer  in  any  one 
year.  Said  penalty  may  be  increased  from  time  to  time  as  the 
interests  of  the  district  may  require,  the  said  bond,  after 
being  approved  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners1,  shall  be 
filed  with  the  county  treasurer,  and  it  is  hereby  made  unlawful 
for  the  county  treasurer  to  pay  over  any  sums  of  money  out  of 
the  school  fund  to  any  district  treasurer  until  such  bond  shall 
have  been  approved  and  filed  as  herein  provided,  and  in  case 
of  a  breach  in  the  conditions  of  said  bond,  suit  shall  be  brought 
thereon  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  county 
in  which  the  district  is  situated!,  for  the  benefit  of  said  district. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1952.] 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  43 

Establishment  of  High  Schools. 

Sec.  128.  The  County  Superintendent  and  District  Board 
of  Directors  may  determine  whether  a  school  of  a  higher  grade 
shall  be  established  in  the  district,  the  number  of  teachers  to 
be  employed,  and  the  course  of  instruction  to  be  pursued 
therein,  until  the  meeting  of  the  teachers'  institute,  provided 
for  by  law,  at  which  time  the  institute  shall  determine  the 
studies  to  be  pursued  in  all  schools  of  like  grade  in  the  State ; 
and  the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  have  the 
same  power  to  carry  into  effect  the  determination  of  the  in- 
stitute, as  is  provided  in  other  cases;  and  the  board  may  erect, 
for  the  purpose,  one  or  more  permanent  school  houses,  and 
shall  cause  such  classification  of  the  pupils  as  they  may  deem 
necessary;  but  in  selecting  the  site  for  such  school  house  or 
school  houses  the  permanent  interest  and  future  welfare  of 
the  people  of  the  entire  district  shall  be  consulted.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  1953.] 

NOTE — This  refers  particularly  to  the  district  high  school, 
and  not  to  the  high  school  as  formed  in  accordance  with  S.  L. 
1905,  Ch.  67. 

Separate  School  for  Colored  Children. 

Sec.  129.  When  there  are  fifteen  or  more  colored  children 
within  any  school  district,  the  Board  of  Directors  thereof,  with 
the  approval  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  may 
provide  a  separate  school  for  the  instruction  of  such  colored 
children.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1954.] 

Employment  and  Payment  of  Teachers. 

Sec.  130.  The  District  Board  shall  employ  all  teachers 
•necessary  for  the  schools  of  the  district,  and  pay  them  by  draft 
on  the  treasurer.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1955.] 

Free  to  All  Children — Compulsory  Education. 

Sec.  131.  The  public  schools  of  each  school  district  of 
the  State  shall  at  all  times  be  equally  free  and  accessible  to  all 
children  resident  therein  over  six  and  under  the  age  of  twenty- 
one  years,  subject  to  such  regulations  as  the  District  Board  in 
each  district  may  prescribe.  Every  parent,  guardian  or  other 
person  in  this  State  having  control  or  charge  of  any  child  or 
children  between  the  ages  of  seven  and  fourteen  years,  in- 
clusive, shall  be  required  to  send  such  child  or  children  to  a 
public,  private  or  parochial  school,  or  to  two  or  more  of  these 
schools,  each  school  year,  during  the  entire  time  that  the  pub- 
lic school  shall  be  in  session  in  the  district  in  which  the  pupil 
resides.  Provided,  That  exceptions  may  be  made  in  the  fol- 
lowing cases:  (1)  Invalids  or  others  to  whom  the  school  room 
might  be  injurious,  may  upon  receipt  of  a  physician's  certifi- 
cate be  excused  by  the  District  Board.  (2)  Pupils  to  whom 


44  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

the  provisions'  of  this  act  might  work  a  hardship  may  be  ex- 
cused by  the  written  consent  of  the  District  Board  when  a  re- 
quest stating  the  reason  for  such  excuse  is  presented  by  the 
parent  or  guardian  to  the  District  Board.  (3)  Pupils  who  for 
legal  reasons  have  been  excluded  from  the  regular  schools  and 
no  provisions  made  for  the  schooling  of  such  children.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1956.] 

Duty  of  Officers — Truancy. 

Sec.  132.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sheriff  of  each 
county  and  of  every  deputy  sheriff  and  constable  within  their 
respective  precincts  and  of  any  truant  officer,  if  there,  be  any, 
to  see  that  the  provisions  of  Sections  1956,  1957  and  1958  are 
complied  with,  and  when  from  personal  knowledge,  or  upon 
reports  or  complaints  of  any  resident  or  teacher  of  the  county, 
or  precinct,  or  district  under  his  supervision,  he  believes  that 
any  child'  subject  to  the  provisions  of  said  sections  is  habitually 
tardy  or  a'bsent  from  school,  he  shall  immediately  give  writ- 
ten notice  to  the  parent,  guardian  or  custodian  of  such  child 
that  the  attendance  of  such  child  at  school  is  required  by  law, 
and  if  within  five  days  after  such  notice  such  parent,  guardian 
or  custodian  does  not  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
then  such  officer  shall  make  and  file  complaint  against  such 
parent,  guardian  or  custodian  of  any  such  child  before  a  justice 
of  the  peace  of  the  proper  county,  or  the  district  court,  for  a 
violation  of  said  provisions.  Provided,  That  only  one  notice 
shall  be  required  as  to  any  child  in  any  one  year.  Any  such 
parent,  guardian  or  custodian  of  any  such  child  who  shall  vio- 
late the  provisions  of  said  sections,  and  after  receiving  such 
notice  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions 
thereof,  shall  be  adjudged  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon« 
conviction  thereof  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  less  than  five 
dollars  and  not  more  than  twenty-five  dollars  for  any  one  of- 
fense, to  which  may  be  added  in  the  discretion  of  the  court, 
imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  of  not  more  than  ninety  days 
for  any  offense  after  the  first.  Any  District  Board  of  a  school 
district  in  which  there  is  located  a  city  or  town  of  more  than 
2,500  inhabitants,  may  appoint  a  regular  truant  officer  to  carry 
out  the  provisions  of  said  sections,  who  shall  be  paid  out  of  the 
district  treasury  such  sum  as  shall  be  provided  in  the  order  for 
his  appointment,  not  exceeding,  however,  the  sum  of  four  dol- 
lars for  each  day  of  actual  service.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1957.] 

Enumeration — Delinquent  Pupils. 

Sec.  133.  On  the  first  day  of  school  in  each  school  district 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  thereof  to  furnish  to  the 
sheriff  or  constable  within  the  proper  precinct,  a  list  of  the 
names  of  children  of  compulsory  school  age  within  the  district 
who  are  enumerated  on  the  regular  enumeration  lists.  At  the 


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close  of  the  first  week  of  school  in  such  district,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  each  teacher  therein  to  send)  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  a  complete  list  of  pupils  attending  his  or  her 
school,  which  list  shall  be  immediately  forwarded  by  said 
County  Superintendent  to  the  proper  sheriff,  deputy  sheriff, 
constable  or  truant  officer,  in  order  that  the  provisions  of  this 
and  the  two  preceding  sections  may  be  duly  executed ;  and  it 
shall  be  the  further  duty  of  the  teacher,  or  principal,  if  there 
be  any,  when  a  pupil  has  been  absent  for  three  consecutive 
days,  for  which  absence  there  has  been,  in  the  teacher's  judg- 
ment, no  good  reason  assigned,  or  when  a  pupil  is  habitually 
absent  or  tardy,  to  make  written  report  to  the  truant  officer 
of  the  district  concerning  such  delinquency,  and  it  shall  then 
be  the  duty  of  said  officer  to  proceed  according  to  section 
134.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1958.] 

School  Offenses  Denned— Penalty. 

Sec.  134.  Any  person  who  shall  use  insulting  and  abusive 
language  to  and  toward!  any  teacher  in  or  about  any  public 
school  house,  or  who  shall  wilfully  disturb  any  public  school 
or  district  meeting,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor, 
and,  upon  conviction,  shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  less  than 
five  dollars,  and  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

Any  person  who  shall  wilfully  break,  cut,  deface,  dtespoil, 
injure,  damage  or  destroy  any  school  property,  or  who  shall 
cut,  mark,  write  or  otherwise  place  or  put  on,  or  cause  to 
be  placed  or  put  upon,  any  school  property,  any  language  or 
pictures  or  figures  or  signs  of  an  obscene  character,  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and,  upon  conviction  thereof, 
shall  pay  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars,  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars.  The  said  fines  shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury 
of  the  school  district  in  which  the  offense  was  committed.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1959.] 

School  Week  and  Month  Defined. 

Sec.  135.  Five  days  school  constitute  <a  school  week,  and 
twenty  days  a  school  month;  and  it  shall  be  understood  that 
school  is  not  to  be  kept  in  operation  on  Saturdays  or  any  holi- 
day, but  if  a  holiday  fall  upon  a  day  which  would  otherwise 
be  a  school  day,  it  shall  be  counted'  ias  though  taught.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  I960.] 


School  Officers  Shall  Not  Be  Agents  for  School  Suppli< 

Penalty. 

Sec.  136.  Neither  the  State  Superintendent,  or  any  per- 
son in  his  office,  nor  any  County  Superintendent,  nor  school 
district  officer,  nor  any  officer  or  teacher  connected  with  any 
public  school,  shall  act  as  agent  or  solicitor  for  the  sale  of  any 
school  books,  maps,  charts,  school  library  books,  school  fur- 


46  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WTO-MING 

niture,  apparatus  or  stationery,  or  furnish  any  assistance  to, 
or  receive  any  reward  therefor,  from  any  author,  publisher, 
bookseller  or  dealer,  doing  the  same.  Every  person  violating 
this  section  shall  forfeit  not  less  than  fifty  nor  more  than  two 
hundred  dollars  for  eiach  offense,  and  be  liable  to  removal  from 
office  therefor.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1961.] 

State  Treasurer  Shall  Keep  School  Fund. 

Sec.  137.  The  State  Treasurer  shall  keep  a  separate  fund 
to  be  known  as  the  "school  fund",  and1  all  moneys  appropri- 
ated for  school  purposes  shall  be  kept  in  such  fund.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1962.] 

Discrimination  on  Account  of  Sex  or  Religious  Belief 
Prohibited. 

Sec.  138.  In  the  employment  of  teachers  in  the  public 
schools  in  this  State,  no  discrimination  shall  be  made  in  the 
question  of  pay  on  account  of  sex,  nor  on  account  of  the  re- 
ligious belief  of  the  applicant  for  the  position  of  teacher,  when 
the  persons  are  equally  qualified,  and  the  labor  is  the  same. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1965.] 

Examinations  Required. 

'Sec.  139.  No  certificate  shall  be  granted  hereafter  to  any 
person  to  teach  in  the  schools  of  Wyoming,  who  shall  not  pass 
a  satisfactory  examination  in  physiology  and  hygiene,  with 
special  reference  to  the  effects  of  alcoholic  drinks,  stimulants 
and  narcotics  upon  the  human  system.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1966.] 

NOTE — This  is  interpreted  not  to  apply  to  those  who  have 
shown  that  efficiency  to  render  them  eligible  to  secure  certifi- 
cates without  examination. 

Teacher's  Report. 

Sec.  140.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  teacher  of  every 
district  school,  or  graded  school,  to  make  out  and  file  with 
the  district  clerk,  at  the  expiration  of  each  term  of  the  school, 
a  full  report  of  the  whole  number  of  scholars  admitted  to  the 
school  during  such  term,  distinguishing  between  male  and  fe- 
male, the  names  of  such  scholars,  the  numiber  of  days  each 
scholar  attended  the  same,  the  aggregate  number  of  days  of  at- 
tendance of  said  schools,  the  text-books  used,  the  branches 
taught  and  the  number  of  pupils  engaged  in  the  study  of  each 
of  said  branches.  Any  teacher  who  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to 
comply  with  the  requirements  of  this  section,  shall  forfeit  his 
or  her  wages  for  teaching  such  school,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
District  Board.  [0.  S,  1910,  Sec.  1967.] 

Refusal  to  Deliver  Records  to  Successor — Penalty. 

Sec.  141.  Every  school  district  clerk  or  treasurer,  who 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  deliver  to  their  successors  in  office, 


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all  records  and  'books,  belonging  severally  to  their  offices,  shall 
be  subject  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  five  hundred  dollars.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1968.] 

Employment  of  Counsel. 

Sec.  142.  In  iall  cases  where  suits  may  be  instituted  by, 
or  against,  any  of  the  school  officers  contemplated  or  created 
by  law,  to  enforce  any  of  the  provisions  herein  contained, 
counsel  may  be  employed,  if  necessary,  by  the  officer  insti- 
tuting the  suit,  and  the  expense  of  the  suit  shall  be  borne  by 
the  district,  county  or  state  in  whose  name,  or  against  whom, 
the  same  may  be  instituted.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1969.] 

Collection  and  Disposition  of  Fines. 

'Sec.  143.  All  fines,  penalties  and  forfeitures  provided 
by  the  school  laws  may  be  recovered  'by  action  in  the  name  of 
the  people  of  the  State  of  Wyoming,  for  the  use  of  the  proper 
school  district  or  county,  and  when  they  accrue,  belong  to  the 
respective  districts  or  counties  in  which  the  same  may  be  ac- 
crued ;  and  the  treasurer  of  such  districts,  and  the  County  Com- 
missioners of  such  counties  are  here'by  authorized  to  receive 
and  'apply  the  proceeds  of  such  forfeiture  as  the  interest  of  the 
permanent  fund  is  now,  or  may  hereafter  'be,  applied.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1970.] 

Officer  Failing  to  Pay  Over  Money — Penalty. 

Sec.  144.  Any  officer  or  person  collecting  or  receiving 
any  fines,  forfeitures  or  other  moneys  and'  refusing  and  fail- 
ing to  pay  over  the  same  as  required  by  law,  shall  forfeit 
double  the  amount  so  withheld,  and  interest  thereon  at  the  rate 
of  five  per  cent,  per  month  during  the  time  of  so  withholding 
the  same.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1971.] 

Effect  of  Change  in  County  Boundaries  on  School  Districts. 

Sec.  145.  If  by  any  act  of  the  State  legislature  changing 
the  boundary  line  or  lines  of  any  county  or  counties,  or  form- 
inw  new  counties  from  counties  already  formed,  any  legally 
organized  school  district  is  or  has  been  separated  from  the 
county  to  which  it  then  belonged  and  is  or  has  been  joined  to 
another  county,  the  members  of  the  school  board  of  such 
school  district  so  separated  from  one  county  and  joined  to  an- 
other county,  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  until  the  next 
annual  school  election  following  said  change  in  county  boun- 
daries ;  and  until  such  annual  school  election  said  school  board 
may  draw  the  public  school  funds  for  paying  teachers,  or  other 
necessary  legal  school  expenses  from  the  school  treasury  of 
the  county  to  which  saidi  school  district  formerly  belonged, 
and  in  the  same  way  and  manner  as  said  Board  would  have 
drawn  and  expended  said  pu'blic  moneys  had  no  change  in 
county  'boundaries  'been  made.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1972.] 


48  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

State  Treasurer  Authorized  to  Receive  Donations  for  Schools. 

Sec.  146.  Whenever  the  State  of  Wyoming  shall  be  en- 
titled to  receive  any  moneys  or  funds  from  the  United  States 
of  America,  or  from  any  other  source  or  authority,  to  be  ex- 
pended for  the  benefit  of  the  public  schools  of  the  State,  or 
held  or  in  any  manner  applied  for  their  benefit,  the  State  Treas- 
urer is  hereby  authorized  to  receive  and  receipt  for  such 
moneys  or  fund's,  and  to  make  such  application  and  use  of  the 
same  as  may  be  required  by  law.  Should  such  moneys  or 
funds  be  donated  to  the  State,  and  should  the  act  of  donation 
require  such  moneys  or  funds  to  be  applied  or  held,  or  used  in 
a  particular  manner,  thev  shall  be  so  applied.  [C.  S.,  1910,  Sec. 
1973.] 

Liability  of  Treasurer  for  School  Money. 

Sec.  147,  The  'State  Treasurer  shall  faithfully  account 
for  all  moneys  or  funds  received!  pursuant  to  the  foregoing 
section,  and  he  and  his  sureties  upon  his  official  bond  shall  be 
liable  for  any  failure  to  so  account  for  such  moneys  or  funds. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1974.] 

School  Board  May  Establish  Manual  Training  Schools. 

Sec.  148.  The  School  Board  of  any  district  in  the  State 
shall  have  power  to  establish  and  locate  industrial  and  manual 
training  schools  in  connection  with  the  public  schools  of  said 
district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1975.] 

Humane  Treatment  of  Animals  Taught. 

Sec.  149.  There  shall  be  taught  in  the  public  schools  of 
Wyoming,  in  addition  to  the  other  branches  of  study  now 
prescribed,  a  system  of  humane  treatment  of  animals,  as  em- 
bodied in  the  laws  of  Wyoming;  such  instruction  to  consist 
of  not  less  than  two  lessons  of  ten  minutes  each  per  week. 
The  principal  or  teacher  of  every  school  shall  certify  in  his  or 
her  reports  that  such  instruction  has  been  given  in  the  school 
under  his  or  her  control.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1976.] 


DISTRICT  OFFICERS  AND  THEIR  DUTIES. 

Director  to  Preside  at  Meetings  and  Countersign  Orders. 

Sec.  150.  The  Director,  when  present,  shall  preside  at 
all  meetings  of  the  Board  of  the  district,  and  countersign  all 
orders  on  the  treasury  for  the  payment  of  money.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  1977.] 

How  Drafts  and  Orders  Drawn. 

Sec.  151.  All  drafts  and  orders  drawn  on  the  district 
treasurer,  as  required  in  the  foregoing  section,  shall  specify 
the  funds  on  which  they  are  drawn,  and  the  use  for  which 


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the  money  is  designated,  and  shall  be  signed  by  the  district 
clerk.     [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1978.] 

By  Whom  District  to  Appear  in  Actions. 

Sec.  152.  The  Director  shall  appear  in  behalf  of  his  dis- 
trict in  all  suits  brought  by  or  against  the  same ;  but  when 
he  is  individually  a  party,  this  duty  s'hall  be  performed  by  the 
clerk.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1979.] 

Duties  of  Clerk. 

Sec.  153,  The  clerk  shall  record  all  the  proceedings  of 
the  Board  and  of  the  district  meetings  in  books  to  be  kept  for 
that  purpose,  and  report  in  writing  to  the  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  the  name  of  the  Director  and  Treasurer  imme- 
diately after  they  are  c'hosen  or  elected,  and  he  shall  preserve 
copies  of  all  reports  made  to  the  County  Superintendent,  and 
shall  file  all  papers  transmitted  to  him,  by  school  officers  or 
other  persons,  pertaining  to  the  business  of  the  district,  and 
shall  sign  all  drafts,  warrants  and  orders  drawn  by  him.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1980.] 

Clerk  to  Certify  Debt  Limit. 

Sec.  154.  The  clerk  of  each  school  district  of  each  county 
shall  endorse  a  certificate  upon  every  bond  or  evidence  of  debt 
issued  pursuant  to  law,  that  the  same  is  within  the  lawful 
debt  limit  of  such  school  district,  and'  is  issued  according  to 
law.  He  shall  sign  such  certificate  in  his  official  character. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1981.] 

Clerks  Shall  Keep  Accounts. 

Sec.  155.  The  district  clerk  s'hall  keep  an  accurate  ac- 
count of  all  the  expenses  incurred  'by  the  district,  and  shall 
present  the  same  to  the  District  Board,  to  'be  audited  and  paid 
as  herein  provided,  out  of  the  school  fund.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 

1982.] 

Notice  of  District  Meetings. 

Sec.  156.  The  district  clerk  shall  give  ten  days  previous 
notice  of  all  regular  and  special  meetings  of  the  district,  herein 
authorized,  by  posting  up  a  written  notice  in  three  different 
places  therein,  and  shall  furnish  a  copy  of  the  same  to  the 
teachers  of  each  school  in  the  district,  to  be  read  once  in  the 
presence  of  the  pupils  thereof.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1983.] 

Duty— District  Clerk. 

Sec.  157.  The  district  clerk  shall  immediately  after  the 
annual  school  meeting  and  not  later  than  the  fourth  Monday 
in  May  in  eac'h  year,  submit  a  report  to  the  County  Superin- 
tendent for  the  past  year  ending  April  30th  next  preceding. 

1.  Of  the  number  of  schools  taught  in  such  district,  the 
number  of  days  each  scholar  attended  the  same,  and  the  ag- 
gregate number  of  days  of  attendance  of  said  school  respec- 


50  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

lively,  as  certified  by  the  teachers  of  the  several  schools  of 
such  district. 

2.  The  number  of  schools  and  the  branches  taught  in 
each. 

3.  The  number  of  pupils  in  each  school,  and  of  each  sex. 

4.  The  number  of  teachers  employed  in  each  school  and 
the  average  compensation  of  each  per  month. 

5.  The  number  of  days  the  school  has  been  taught,  and 
by  whom. 

6.  The  average  cost  of  tuition  for  a  pupil,  per  month,  in 
each  school. 

7.  Books  used  in  each  school. 

8.  The  number  of  volumes  in  the  library  of  such  school. 

9.  The  aggregate  amount  paid  teachers  during  the  year, 
the  source  from  which  the  same  was  received,  and  the  amount 
of  teachers'  fund  in  the  hands  of  the  treasurer. 

10.  The  number  of  district  school  houses  and  the  cost  of 
each. 

11.  The  amount  raised  in  the  district  by  tax  for  the  erec- 
tion of  school  houses,  and  for  other  purposes  authorized  by 
law,  and  such  other  information  as  he  may  deem  useful.     [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1984.] 

Failure  to  Make  Report — Penalty. 

Sec.  158.  Should  the  clerk  fail  to  file  his  report,  as  above 
directed!,  he  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  twenty-five  dollars,  and 
shall  be  liable  to  make  good  on  his  official  bond,  all  loss  re- 
sulting to  the  district  for  such  failure,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty 
o'f  the  prosecuting  attorney  to  bring  suit  in  both  cases  upon 
complaint  by  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  whose 
dhity  it  shall  be  to  make  the  complaint.  [L.  1913,  Chap.  92.] 

NOTE — Local  authorities  may,  at  their  discretion,  require 
this  bond. 

Duties  of  the  Treasurer — Publication  of  Report. 

Sec.  159.  The  treasurer  shall  have  the  custody  of  all 
moneys  belonging  to  the  district,  and  shall  pay  out  the  same 
upon  the  ord>er  of  the  clerk,  countersigned  by  the  director ;  iand 
shall  keep  an  account  of  the  receipts  and  expenditures  thereof, 
in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose.  He  shall  cause  to  be  pub- 
lished in  some  newspaper  of  general  circulation  in  the  county 
wherein  such  school  district  is  situate,  on  the  first  week  of 
July  in  each  year,  a  full  and  true  report  of  the  receipts  and 
disbursements  of  said  district  for  the  year  preceding  such 
report.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1986.] 

Teachers'  Fund. 

Sec.  160.  The  moneys  for  the  payment  of  teachers  shall 
be  called  the  "teachers'  fund",  and  the  treasurer  shall  keep 


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distinct  and  separate  accounts  with  them ;  and  no  warrant  for 
money  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  which  does  not  specify 
the  fund  on  which  it  is  drawn,  iand  the  specific  use  to  which  it 
is  to  be  applied.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1987.] 

School  House  Fund. 

Sec.  161.  The  school  house  fund  shall  consist  only  of 
taxes  collected  in  the  district;  and  other  school  moneys  be- 
longing to  the  district  shall  go  to  the  teachers'  fund,  and  shall 
be  applied  to  no  other  use  except  to  pay  the  wages  of  school 
teachers  in  the  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1988.] 

Treasurer  to  Receive  District  Money. 

Sec.  162.  The  District  Treasurer  shall  apply  for,  and  re- 
ceive all  money  lapportioned  to  the  district,  by  the  County 
Superintendent,  when  notified  of  said  apportionment.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1989.]  • 

Treasurer  to  Render  Statement  on  Request. 

Sec.  163.  The  District  Treasurer  shall  render  a  statement 
of  the  finances  of  the  district  as  shown  by  the  records  of  his 
office,  at  any  time  when  required 'by  the  District  Board.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  1990.] 

Flag  to  Be  Displayed  on  School  House. 

Sec.  164.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Trustees,  at  the  ex- 
pense of  such  district,  in  each  school  district  in  the  State  of 
Wyoming,  to  cause  the  American  flag  to  be  placed  in  a  proper 
and  suitable  manner  upon  each  school  house,  flag  staff  or  tower, 
in  such  respective  school  districts  in  the  State  of  Wyoming. 
And  they  shall  cause  said  flag  to  be  hoisted  upon  each  of  said 
school  house  or  school  houses,  fliag  staff  or  tower,  in  such  re- 
spective districts,  during  the  time  when  school  shall  be  in 
session.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1991.] 

Annual  Enumeration — Children. 

Sec.  165.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
each  school  district  in  this  'State  to  cause  to  be  made  during 
the  month  of  April  in  each  year  a  full  and  true  enumeration 
of  all  children  of  school  age,  to- wit:  those  between  the  ages 
of  six  and  twenty-one  years,  in  their  respective  districts.  Such 
enumeration  shall  be  in  duplicate  and  in  such  form  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  the  State  Superintendent  of  Pu'blic  Instruction, 
and  shall  set  forth  and  state  the  name,  age,  sex  and  residence 
of  eiach  child  enumerated,  and  the  same  shall  bear  a  certificate 
signed  by  all  or  a  majority  of  the  trustees  of  such  school  dis- 
trict to  the  effect  that  it  has  been  examined  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  such  district  and  found  to  be  according  to  the  best 
judgment  and  belief  of  the  subscribers  a  full,  true  and  correct 
enumeration  of  all  the  children  of  school  age  in  their  district. 


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One  of  the  duplicate  copies  of  said  enumeration  shall  be  filed 
by  the  clerk  of  the  school  district  with  the  other  papers  and 
records  of  the  district  in  his  custody  and  the  other  shall  by  said 
clerk  be  transmitted  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
of  his  county  on  or  before  the  fourth  Monday  of  May  in  each 
year.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1992.] 

Employ  an  Enumerator. 

Sec.  166.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  each  district  shall,  if 
in  its  judgment  it  is  necessary  so  to  do,  have  power  to  employ 
a  suitable  person  or  persons  for  such  time  as  may  be  actually 
necessary  to  make  such  enumeration  for  such  district  and  re- 
turn the  same  to  the  said  Board ;  such  person  so  employed  shall 
before  commencing  the  making  of  such  enumeration  take,  sub- 
scribe and  file  with  the  district  clerk  an  oath  in  writing  to  the 
effect  that  he  will  faithfully,  diligently,  truly  and  to  the  best  of 
his  skill  and  ability  perform  his  duty  as  such  enumerator.  [C. 
S.  1910,  Sec.  1993.] 

False  Enumeration — Penalty. 

Sec.  167.  Any  trustee  of  any  school  district  or  any  enu- 
merator employed  to  make  or  assist  in  making  the  enumera- 
tion for  any  district  who  shall  knowingly  and  wilfully  make 
any  false  enumeration  of  the  children  of  school  age  in  such 
district  or  who  shall  certify  to  the  correctness  and  truthfulness 
of  any  such  enumeration  knowing  the  same  to  be  false,  incor- 
rect and  untrue,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  on  con- 
viction thereof  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  dollars  nor  more 
than  one  hundred  dollars  or  be  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail 
not  less  than  ten  days  nor  more  than  thirty  days,  or  by  both 
such  fine  tand  imprisonment,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court.  [C. 
S.  1910,  Sec.  1994.] 

Failure  to  Enumerate — Penalty. 

Sec.  168.  In  the  event  that  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  any 
school  district  should  fail,  neglect  or  refuse  to  make  or  cause 
to  be  made  such  enumerations  as  hereinbefore  provided  for 
in  the  event  that  the  clerk  of  any  district  shall  fail,  neglect  or 
refuse  to  transmit  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  on 
or  before  the  fourth  Monday  in  May  of  each  year  the  duplicate 
copy  of  the  enumeration  of  his  district  as  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided, then  and  in  either  of  such  cases  it  is  here'by  made  the 
duty  of  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  to  cause  such 
enumeration  to  be  made  on  or  before  the  third  Monday  in  June 
following  at  the  expense  of  the  school  district,  and  to  that  end 
the  said  Superintendent  shall  have  all  the  power  hereinbefore 
conferred  upon  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  that  purpose,  and  for 
the  purpose  of  paying  the  expense  of  such  enumeration  the 
said  Superintendent  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  issue 


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to  the  person  making  such  enumeration  an  order  upon  such 
school  district  for  the  amount  due  such  person  and  upon  pre- 
sentation of  such  order  it  shall  'be  the  duty  of  the  director  and 
clerk  of  such  district  to  issue  a  warrant  upon  the  treasurer 
of  the  district  for  such  amount.  Provided,  however.  That  in 
the  event  that  such  enumeration  shall  be  made  because  of  the 
failure,  neglect  or  refusal  of  the  clerk  of  the  district  to  transmit 
a  duplicate  copy  of  an  enumeration  which  had  been  made,  then 
and  in  such  case  the  said  clerk  shall  be  liable  to  his  school 
district  for  the  cost  and  expense  of  the  enumeration  madie  by 
the  County  Superintendent,  and  the  said  district  may,  by  an  ac- 
tion at  law  recover  of  and  from  such  defaulting  clerk  the  cost 
thereof,  together  with  costs  and  attorney's  fees.  Provided, 
further,  That  if  such  enumeration  by  the  County  Superintend- 
ent be  rendered  necessary  because  of  the  neglect  or  failure  or 
default  of  any  members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  the  per- 
formance of  the  duties  by  this  or  the  three  preceding  sections 
enjoined  upon  them,  then  and  in  such  case  such  defaulting 
members  shall  be  jointly  and  severally  liable  to  the  school 
district  for  such  cost  and  expense ;  and  the  same,  together  with 
costs  and  attorney's  fees,  may  be  recovered  by  the  district  in 
an  action  at  law  from  such  defaulting  members  of  the  Board. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1995.] 

County  Superintendents — Duty— Report. 

Sec.  169.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  to  compile  the  said  reports  of  the  enumeration 
of  children  of  school  age  in  the  several  school  districts  of  his 
county  reported  to  him  as  hereinbefore  provided  and  there- 
from to  ascertain  and  determine  the  number  of  children  of 
school  age  in  his  county,  and  at  the  time  of  making  his  annual 
report  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  he 
shall  include  in  such  report  a  statement  of  the  number  of  chil- 
dren of  school  age  in  his  county  as  shown  by  such  enumera- 
tion. [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1996.] 

Distribution  of  State  School  Funds. 

Sec.  170.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  in  distributing  to  the  several  school  districts 
of  his  county  the  funds  or  moneys  apportioned  and  distrib- 
uted to  his  county  for  school  purposes  by  the  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction.  Provided,  however,  That  no  por- 
tion of  the  funds  apportioned  to  any  county  by  the  State  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  for  school  purposes  shall  be 
apportioned  by  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  to  any 
district  for  the  year  in  which  a  school  has  not  been  maintained 
for  at  least  three  months.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1997.] 


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PUBLIC  KINDERGARTEN. 

Power  of  Trustees  to  Establish  Kindergarten. 

Sec.  171.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  any  school  district 
in  this  State  shall  have  power  to  establish  and  maintain  free 
kindergarten  schools  in  connection  with  the  public  schools 
of  their  district,  for  the  instruction  of  children  residing  in 
such  district  and  between  the  ages  of  four  and  six  years,  and 
shall  establish  such  courses  of  training,  study  and  discipline 
and  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  such 
kindergarten  schools  as  said  board  may  deem  advisable;  Pro- 
vided, That  the  cost  of  establishing  and  maintaining  such  kin- 
dergarten schools  shall  be  paid  from  the  special  school  fund  of 
said  school  district,  and  the  gross  sum  to  be  so  expended  by  the 
said  Board  for  such  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  annually 
fixed  and  determined  by  the  qualified  electors  of  such  district 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  such  electors.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  1998.] 

Shall  Be  Part  of  School  System — Teachers. 

Sec.  172.  The  said  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  a  part 
of  the  public  school  system  and  governed  as  far  as  practicable 
in  the  same  manner  and  by  the  same  officers  as  is  now,  or  here- 
after may  be  provided  by  law,  for  the  government  of  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  this  State;  Provided,  however,  That  teachers 
of  the  kindergarten  schools  shall  be  the  holders  of  certificates 
or  diplomas  from  some  reputable  institution  for  the  training  of 
kindergarten  teachers,  and  shall  pass  such  other  examination 
and  possess  such  other  qualifications  as  may  be  required  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  district  employing  them.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  1999.] 

Law  Not  Changed  in  Reference  to  Apportionment. 

•Sec.  173.  Nothing  in  this  chapter  shall  be  so  construed 
as  to,  in  any  manner,  change  the  law,  as  it  now  exists,  with  ref- 
erence to  the  taking  of  the  census  of  the  school  population, 
or  the  apportionment  of  the  State  and  county  school  funds 
among  the  several  counties  and  districts  in  this  State.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2000.] 

How  Carried  Into  Effect. 

Sec.  174.  That  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  the  quali- 
fied electors  of  any  school  district  in  the  State  at  the  annual 
meeting  held  under  the  provisions  of  existing  law,  to  vote 
such  sum  of  money  as  may  be  necessary  to  establish  and  main- 
tain such  kindergarten  schools,  during  the  school  year  next 
following  such  meeting,  such  sum  in  the  aggregate  not  to 
exceed  one  mill  upon  the  dollar  of  the  valuation  of  the  prop- 
erty in  the  district,  as  determined  by  the  next  preceding  an- 
nual assessment  thereof  for  the  purposes  of  taxation,  the  same 


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to  be  certified,  levied,  collected  and  disbursed  in  the  same  man- 
ner as  is  now  provided  by  law  with  respect  to  the  special  school 
funds  of  the  several  school  districts  in  this  State.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2001.] 


FREE  TEXT  BOOKS. 

Text  Books  in  Public  Schools. 

.  Sec.  175.  The  Board  of  School  Directors  in  city  or  county 
are  hereby  empowered,  and  it  is  made  their  duty,  to  purchase 
all  text-books  necessary  for  the  schools  of  such  city,  town  or 
district;  and  they  are  further  authorized  to  enter  into  con- 
tract, as  hereinafter  provided,  with  the  publishers  of  such 
books  for  a  period  of  years,  not  to  exceed  five;  Provided, 
That  the  contract  prices  of  such  books  shall  not  exceed  the 
lowest  price  then  granted  to  any  dealer,  State,  county,  town- 
ship, school  district,  or  other  individual  or  corporation  in  the 
United  States,  to  be  determined  as  hereinafter  provided;  and 
Provided,  further,  That  such  contract  shall  guarantee  to  such 
district  any  further  reduction  that  may  be  granted  elsewhere 
during  the  life  of  such  contract.  Said  Boards  are  hereby  em- 
powered to  purchase,  as  a  book  of  reference  for  use  in  their 
schools,  the  History  of  Wyoming,  in  three  volumes,  of  which 
C.  G-.  Coutant  is  the  author,  and  "The  Sabbath  as  an  American 
War  Day",  in  one  volume,  of  which  W.  P.  Carroll  is  the  au- 
thor ;  Provided,  That  the  price  paid  for  the  said  work  shall  not 
exceed  the  price  paid  therefor  by  subscribers  generally.  Pro- 
vided, That  no  school  trustee  or  officer  of  the  district  shiall  be 
interested  in  any  way,  directly  or  indirectly,  in  the  sale  of 
school  supplies  in  the  district  in  which  he  is  a  director.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2002.] 

Books — Paid  for  from  Public  School  Land  Income  Fund. 

Sec.  176.  The  books  to  be  purchased  under  the  provisions 
of  this  chapter  shall  be  paid  for  by  the  directors  of  the  different 
school  districts  of  the  State,  out  of  the  public  land  income  fund, 
when  the  same  shall  be  distributed  to  such  districts  annually. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2004.] 

Books  Paid  for  by  Order  on  District  Treasurer. 

Sec.  177.  For  the  purpose  of  paying  for  school  books, 
the  school  district  officers  may  draw  an  order  on  the  District 
Treasurer  for  the  amount  of  school  books  ordered.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2005.] 

Orders — From  What  Funds  Paid. 

Sec.  178.  The  District  Treasurer  shall  pay  orders  drawn 
by  school  district  officers  for  the  purpose  of  school  books  out 
of  any  funds  in  his  hands  belonging  to  the  district,  except 


56  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

the  money  belonging  to  the  teachers'  fund.     [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2006.] 

Publisher  Becoming  Member  of  Trust  Nullifies  Contract. 

Sec.  179.  Any  contract  entered  into  under  the  provisions 
of  this  chapter  with  any  publisher  w'ho  shall  hereafter  be- 
come a  party  to  any  combination  or  trust  for  the  purpose  of 
raising  the  price  of  school  textbooks  shall,  at  the  wish  of  the 
School  Board  of  the  district  using  such  books,  become  null  and 
void.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2007.] 

Attorney  General  Must  Investigate  Violation  of  Contracts. 

'Sec.  180.  Upon  the  filing  of  a  written  complaint  with 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  by  the  officers  of 
any  District  Board,  charging  any  publisher  with  violating  the 
provisions  of  such  contract  as  hereinbefore  mentioned,  the 
Attorney  General  is  hereby  instructed,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty, 
to  investigate  the  same,  and  if  he  finds  probable  cause  for 
action,  he  shall  immediately  begin  proceedings  in  the  name  of 
the  State  to  enforce  the  liability  on  the  bond  hereinbefore  men- 
tioned. [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2010.] 

Books  Property  of  District. 

Sec.  181.  All  books  purchased  by  District  Boards,  as 
hereinbefore  mentioned,  shall  be  held  as  the  property  of  the 
district  and  loianed  to  pupils  of  the  school  while  pursuing  a 
course  of  study  therein,  free  of  charge;  but  the  District  Board 
shall  hold  such  pupils  responsible  for  any  damage  to,  loss  of,  or 
failure  to  return  such  books  at  the  time  and  to  the  person  that 
may  be  designated  by  the  Board  of  such  district.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2011.] 

Pupils  May  Purchase  Books. 

Sec.  182.  Th£  provisions  of  this  chapter  shall  include  all 
school  supplies;  Provided,  That  nothing  in  this  chapter  shall 
be  construed  to  prohibit  any  pupil  or  parent  from  purchasing 
from  the  Board  such,  books  as  may  be  necessary,  at  cost  to 
the  district;  Provided,  further,  That  the  Board  may  designate 
some  local  'dealer  to  handle  books  for  the  district  with  such  an 
increase  above  contract  price  to  pay  cost  of  transportation  and 
handling,  as  may  be  agreed  upon  between  said  Board  and  said 
dealer.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2012.] 


SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BONDS. 

NOTE — School  Trustees  are  urged  when  considering  the 
issuance  of  school  bonds,  to  consult  with  local  attorneys. 

Authority  to  Call  Election  to  Determine  Issue. 

iSec.  183.     The  Board  of  School  Trustees  of  any  school 
district  may,  whenever  a  majority  thereof  so  decide,  submit  to 


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the  electors  of  the  district  the  question  whether  the*  Board  shall 
be  authorized  to  issue  the  coupon  'bonds  of  the  district  to  a 
certain  amount,  not  to  exceed  two  per  cent  of  the  taxable 
property  in  said  district,  and  bearing  ia  certain  rate  of  interest, 
not  exceeding  six  per  cent  per  annum,  and  paya'ble  and  re- 
deemable at  a  certain  time,  not  exceeding  twenty-five  years, 
for  the  purpose  of  building  one  or  more  school  houses  in  said 
district,  and  providing  the  same  with  necessary  furniture,  and 
funding  outstanding  indebtedness  evidenced  by  warrant  or 
otherwise,  against  said  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2028.] 

Bond  Election — Issue  of  Bonds. 

Sec.  184.  Such  elections  must  be  held  in  the  manner 
prescribed  for  general  or  special  elections  in  school  districts, 
and  the  ballots  must  contain  the  words  "Bonds,  Yes",  or 
"Bonds,  No.".  If  the  majority  of  the  votes  at  such/  election 
are  "Bonds,  yes",  the  Board  of  Trustees  must  issue  such  bonds 
in  such  form  as  the  Board  may  direct;  they  must  bear  the 
signatures  of  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  be 
countersigned  by  the  clerk  of  the  school  district,  and  bear  the 
district  seal  and  be  countersigned  by  the  County  Treasurer,  and 
the  coupon  attached  to  the  bonds  must  be  signed  by  the  Presi- 
dent and  clerk  and  the  County  Treasurer.  And  each  bond  so 
issued  must  be  registered  by  the  County  Treasurer  in  a  book 
provided  for  that  purpose,  which  must  show  the  number  and 
amount  of  each  bond,  and  the  person  to  whom  the  same  is 
issued,  and  the  said  bonds  must  be  sold  by  the  said  School 
Trustees,  as  provided  in  section  two  thousand  and  thirty.  [C. 
S.  1910,  Sec.  2029.] 

Sale  of  Bonds — Application  of  Proceeds. 

Sec.  185.  The  School  Trustees  must  give  notice  in  some 
newspaper  of  general  circulation,  published  in  the  capital  of 
this  State,  and  also  in  some  newspaper  published  in  the  county 
in  which  said  school  district  is  located,  for  a  period  of  not  less 
than  four  weeks,  to  the  effect  that  the  said  School  Trustees  will 
sell  said  bonds,  briefly  describing  the  same,  and  the  time  and 
place  where  such  sale  will  take  place ;  Provided,  That  the  said 
bonds  must  not  be  sold  for  less  than  their  par  value,  and  the 
said  Trustees  iare  authorized  to  reject  any  bids,  and  to  sell  said 
bonds  at  private  sale,  if  they  deem  it  for  the  best  interests  of 
the  district ;  and  all  money  arising  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds 
must  be  paid  forthwith  into  the  treasury  of  the  county  in 
which  said  district  may  be  located,  to  the  credit  of  said  district, 
and  the  same  shall  be  immediately  available  for  the  purpose  of 
building  or  providing  the  school  house,  or  school  houses,  au- 
thorized by  this  chapter.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2030.] 


58  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

Pledge  for  Payment. 

Sec.  186.  The  faith  of  each  school  district  is  solemnly 
pledged  for  the  payment  of  the  interest,  and  the  redemption 
of  the  principal  of  all  bonds  which  are  issued  under  this  chap- 
ter. [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2031.] 

Tax  Levy  to  Redeem  and  Pay  Interest. 

Sec.  187.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the 
proper  county  of  eath  district  must  ascertain  and  levy  an- 
nually, the  tax  necessary  to  pay  the  interest  as  it  becomes  due, 
and  a  sinking  fund  to  redeem  the  said  bonds  at  their  maturity ; 
and  saidl  tax  is  a  lien  upon  the  property  in  said  school  district, 
and  must  be  collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes  for 
school  purposes.  Said  tax  shall  be  known  as  "  district  bond 
tax  of  school  district  No ".  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2032.] 

Redemption. 

Sec.  188.  When  the  sum  in  the  sinking  fund  equals  or 
exceeds  the  amount  of  any  bond  then  due,  the  County  Treasurer 
shall  post  in  his  office,  a  notice  that  he  will,  within  thirty  days 
from  the  date  of  such  notice,  redeem  the  bonds  then  payable, 
giving  the  number  thereof,  and  the  preference  must  be  given 
to  the  oldest  issue ;  and  if,  at  the  expiration  of  the  said  thirty 
days  the  holder  or  holders  of  said  bonds  shall  fail  or  neglect 
to  present  the  same  for  payment,  interest  thereon  must  cease ; 
but  the  Treasurer  shall,  at  all  times  thereafter,  be  ready  to 
redeem  the  same  on  presentation,  and)  when  any  bonds  are  so 
purchased  or  redeemed,  the  County  Treasurer  must  cancel  the 
same  by  writing  across  the  face  of  each  bond  in  red  ink,  the 
word  "  cancelled ",  and  the  date  of  such  cancellation.  The 
annual  interest  on  all  of  said  bonds  shall  be  payable  at  the 
office  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  proper  county  on  the  first  and 
ten  succeeding  days  of  January  in  each  year.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2033.] 

Payment  of  Interest. 

Sec.  189.  The  County  Treasurer  may  pay  out  of  any 
moneys  belonging  to  a  school  district  tax  fund,  the  interest 
upon  any  bonds  issued  under  this  chapter  by  such  school  dis- 
trict, when  the  same  becomes  due,  upon  the  presentation  at  his 
office  of  the  proper  coupon,  which  must  show  the  amount  due, 
and  the  number  of  the  bond  to  which  it  belonged,  and  all 
coupons  so  paid,  must  be  reported  to  the  School  Trustees  at 
their  first  regular  meeting  thereafter.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2031] 

Preparation  of  Bonds. 

Sec.  190.  The  School  Trustees  of  any  district  shall  cause 
to  be  printed  or  lithographed]  at  the  lowest  rates,  suitable 
bonds,  with  the  coupons  attached,  when  the  same  become 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  59 

necessary,  and  pay  therefor  out  of  any  moneys  in  their  treas- 
ury.    [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2035.] 

Penalty  for  Misapplication  of  Funds  by  Trustees. 

Sec.  191.  If  any  of  the  School  Trustees  fraudulently  fail 
or  refuse  to  pay  into  the  proper  county  treasury  the  money 
arising  from  the  sale  of  any  bonds  provided  for  by  this  chap- 
ter, they  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  felony,  and  upon  conviction 
thereof,  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the  State  penitentiary 
for  a  term  of  not  less  than  one  year,  nor  more  than  ten  years. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2036.] 

County  Treasurer  Shall  Have  Custody  of  Funds. 

Sec.  192.  The  County  Treasurer  of  such  county  shall  have 
the  custody  of  all  fundJs  realized  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds, 
until  the  same  are  drawn  out  by  the  order  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  said  districts.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2037.] 

Additional  Bond  of  County  Treasurer. 

Sec.  193.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  district  shall 
require  the  said  County  Treasurer  to  give  said  district  a  sepa- 
rate bond  in  such  sum  as  said)  Board  may  deem  proper,  with  two 
or  more  sufficient  sureties,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  per- 
formance of  the  duties  required  of  him  by  this  chapter,  land 
the  faithful  accounting  for  the  moneys  deposited  with  him 
and  realized  from  the  sale  of  said  bonds,  as  herein  provided 
for,  and  such  bonds  shall  be  approved)  by  said  Board  and  shall 
be  and  remain  in  the  custody  of  siaid  Board  of  Trustees.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec,  2038.] 


REFUNDING  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BONDS. 

Power  of  Board  to  Issue  Refunding  Bonds. 

Sec.  194.  The  Board  of  Directors  of  each  and  every  school 
district  in  the  State  of  Wyoming  are  hereby  authorized  to  issue 
refunding  bonds  of  such  school  district,  for  the  purpose  of 
taking  up  outstanding  bonds  of  such  school  district,  for  any 
sum  not  exceeding  the  amount  of  outstanding  bonds ;  Provided, 
That  the  qualified  electors  of  any  school  district  shall  so  elect 
and  determine  at  any  regular  meeting,  or  at  any  special  meet- 
ing, held  for  such  purpose.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2039.] 

Form  of  Bond,  Time  and  Interest. 

Sec.  195.  Said  bonds  shall  be  issued  in  sums  of  not  less 
than  one  hundred  dollars,  and  shall  be  redeemed  by  the  school 
district  issuing  the  same  within  a  period  not  exceeding  thirty 
years,  and  not  less  than  five  years  from  the  date  of  issue,  and 
shall  bear  interest  at  ia  rate  not  exceeding  six  per  centum  per 
annum,  on  each  dollar  of  their  face,  whichj  interest  shall  be 


60  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

payable  annually  or  semi-annually,  the  rate  of  interest  to  be 
determined  by  the  Board  of  School  Directors.  Such  bonds  shall 
be  numbered  from  one  upwards,  and  be  headed  "Refunding 

bonds  of  school  district  No ,  in  the  county  of , 

State  of  Wyoming ' ' ;  and  before  being  issued  shall  be  registered 
toy  the  Treasurer  of  the  county  within  which  such  school  dis- 
trict is  situated.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2040.] 

Registration  of  Bond. 

Sec.  196.  The  County  Treasurer  of  each  county  shall  keep 
a  book  in  which  shall  be  registered  all  such  bonds,  showing 
the  number  of  the  bond,  the  date  of  issue,  amount,  number  of 
coupons,  date  of  redemption,  date  of  registry  and  payment  of 
interest  on  such  bonds,  wlndch  book  shall,  during  business 
hours,  be  open  for  inspection.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2041.] 

By  Whom  Signed  and  Sale  Thereof. 

Sec.  197.  All  bonds  so  issued  shall  be  signed  'by  the  pre- 
siding officer  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  such  school  dis- 
trict, countersigned  by  the  County  Treasurer  of  the  county  in 
which  such  school  district  is  situated,  and  attested  by  the  clerk 
of  such  school  district,  with  the  seal  of  such  school  district 
attached;  and  none  of  such  bonds  shall  be  sold  for  less  than 
their  face  value,  and  s'toall  not  be  sold  until  thirty  days'  notice 
shall  have  been  given  in  some  newspaper  of  general  circulation 
in  the  State  of  Wyoming.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2042.] 

Coupons — Where  paid. 

Sec.  198.  Said  bonds  shall  have  coupons  attached,  repre- 
senting the  interest  to  he  paid  each  year;  and  the  coupons 
representing  said  interest  shall  be  detached  from  the  bonds 
before  presentation  for  payment  of  the  interest  for  the  year 
corresponding  and  upon  payment  shall  be  forthwith  cancelled 
by  the  County  Treasurer,  by  writing  the  word  "cancelled" 
across  the  face  thereof.  The  interest  on  all  such  bonds  shall 
be  payable  at  the  office  of  the  County  Treasurer  of  the  county 
in  which  such  school  district  issuing  such  bonds  is  situatecL 
or  in  any  place  designated  by  the  Board  of  School  Directors  of 
such  school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2043'.] 

Tax  to  Pay  Interest  and  Principal. 

Sec.  199.  There  shall  be  annually  levied  by  the  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  of  the  county,  within  which  is  sit- 
uated any  school  district  issuing  any  such  bonds,  as  are  herein 
provided  for,  on  all  taxable  property  within  the  limits  of  said 
school  district,  a  tax  not  to  exceed  seven  mills  on  the  dollar 
of  valuation,  which  shall  be>  known  as  the  "Refunding  bond 

fund  of  school  district ".    Said  tax  shall  be  payable  only 

in  the  lawful  money  of  the  United  States,  and  shall  be  used 


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to  pay  the  interest  and  principal  of  said)  'bonds,  and  for  no  other 
purpose,  and  said  tax  shall  be  collected  in  the  same  manner, 
and  at  the  same  time  as  the  county  taxes,  and  paid  into  the 
county  treasury  by  the  collector  of  taxes.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2044.] 

Duty  of  School  Directors  as  to  Redemption. 

Sec.  200.  The  Board  of  School  Directors  of  any  school 
district,  which  may  issue  bonds,  as  provided  in  this  chapter, 
shall  each  year,  after  the  tenth  year,  retire  as  many  of  such 
bonds  as  can  be  redeemed,  with  the  amount  of  saidl  bond  fund 
at  the  time  in  the  hands  of  the  County  Treasurer,  and  in  all. such 
cases,  such  bonds  shall  be  redeemed  by  the  payment  of  number 
one  first,  and  proceeding  continuously  upwards  with  those 
outstanding.  All  cancelled  bonds  shall  be  turned  over  to  the 
Board  of  Directors  at  such  times  as  they  may  direct.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2045.] 

Property  in  District  Pledged  for  Payment. 

Sec.  201.  All  taxable  property  of  any  school  district 
issuing  bonds,  as  herein  provided  for,  at  the  time  of  issuing 
such  bonds,  shall  be  pledged  for  the  payment  of  the  principal 
and  interest  of  such  bonds  in  the  manner  herein  provided,  and 
it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  use  or  divert  any  portion  of  suc'h  bond 
fund  for  any  purpose  whatever,  except  for  the  payment  of  such 
principal  and  interest.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2046.] 

Duty  of  County  Treasurer. 

Sec.  202.  The  County  Treasurer  of  each  county  in  which 
any  school  district,  issuing  bonds  as  herein  provided  for,  is 
situated,  shall  have  custody  of  all  funds  realized  from  the  sale 
of  such  bonds,  and  shall  pay  the  same  out  only  upon  the  return 
of  such  bonds,  for  the  redemption  of  which  the  refunding 
bonds,  for  the  issue  of  which  this  chapter  provides,  may  have 
been  issued.  Such  bonds  so  redeemed  shall  be  cancelled  by 
the  County  Treasurer  and  turned  over  to  the  Board  of  School 
Directors  of  the  school  district  which  issued  said  redeemed 
bonds  at  such  time  as  they  may  direct.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  County  Treasurer  to  give  a  separate  bond  to  be  made  to 
such  school  district,  in  such  sum  and  with  such  sureties  as  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  county  may  deem  proper 
and  sufficient,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  accounting  of  the 
moneys  deposited  with  him  and  realized  from  th'e  sale  of  such 
bonds  as  are  herein  provided  for,  and  such  Treasurer's  separate 
bond  shall  be  and  remain  in  the  custody  of  the  county  clerk  of 
the  county  in  which  such  school  district  is  situated.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2047.] 


62  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

Funds  Realized  from  Sale  of  Refunding  Bonds. 

Sec.  203.  Whenever  any  school  district  shall  have  issued 
its  refunding  bonds,  and  the  funds  realized  from  the  sale 
of  such  refunding  bonds,  by  reason  of  such  bonds  selling  for 
more  than  their  par  value,  are  more  than  sufficient  to  redeem 
all  the  bonds,  to  redeem  which  said  refunding  bonds  were 
issued,  such  surplus  may  be  used ;  First,  to  pay  all  the  expenses 
of  issuing  and  disposing  of  said  refunding  bonds.  Second, 
any  surplus  still  remaining  s'hall  be  turned  by  the  County  Treas- 
urer into  the  "Refunding  bond  fund"  of  such  school  district, 
and  used  for  the  purposes  for  which  such  fund  is  used  as  pro- 
vided in  section  two  thousand  and  forty-four.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2048.] 

Balance  in  the  Hands  of  County  Treasurer — How  Used. 

Sec.  204.  Whenever  any  school  district  shall  have  issued 
its  refunding  bonds  and  there  remains  in  the  hands  of  the 
County  Treasurer  of  the  county  in  which  said  school  district 
is  situated,  any  moneys  belonging  to  the  funds  provided  by 
law  for  the  payment  of  the  principal  or  interest,  or  both,  of 
the  'bonds  to  redeem  which  said  refunding  bondis  were  issued, 
said  money  may  be  used:  First,  to  pay  .any  deficiency  in  the 
expenses  of  issuing  and  disposing  of  said  refunding  bonds  that 
cannot  be  paid  by  the  surplus  realized  from  the  sale  of  said 
refunding  bonds.  Second,  any  moneys  still  remaining  in  said 
fund  shall  be  turned  by  said  County  Treasurer  into  the  "Re- 
funding bond  fund"  of  such  school  district  <and  used  for  the 
purposes  for  which  such  fund  is  used  as  provided  in  section 
two  thousand  and  forty-four.  [C.  S.  1910,  iSec.  2049.] 

Surplus — How  Used, 

'Sec.  205.  The  County  Treasurer  of  any  county  in  which 
is  situated  a  school  district  that  may  issue  refunding  bonds, 
is  hereby  authorized  and  required  to  pay  out  the  surplus  mon- 
eys derived  from  the  sale  of  any  such  refunding  bonds,  or 
the  surplus  moneys  remaining  in  the  old  fund  for  the  expenses 
incurred  by  such  school  district  in  issuing  and  disposing  of 
such  refunding  bonds  on  orders  of  the  School  Board  of  such 
school  district,  which  orders  shall  state  on  their  face  that  the 
money  to  be  so  paid  was  a  legitimate  expense  incurred  in  the 
issue  and  sale  of  such  refunding  bonds.  When  all  of  such 
expense  h'as  been  paid  by  the  issue  of  such  orders  or  otherwise, 
the  Board  of  Directors  shall,  over  the  seal  of  said  district,  notify 
said  County  Treasurer  of  the  fact  that  all  the  expense  incurred 
in  the  issue  and  sale  of  such  refunding  bonds  has  been  paid, 
whereupon  siaid  Treasurer  shall  immediately  transfer  all  mon- 
eys remaining  in  his  hands  applicable  to  the  payment  of  in- 
terest or  principal  of  the  old  bonds  to  the  "Refunding  bondl 
fund"  of  such  school  district;  Provided,  however,  That  all  the 


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bonds  to  redeem  which  said  refunding  bonds  were  issued  have 
already  been  paid.     [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2050.] 


HIGH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT. 

High  School  Districts. 

Sec.  206.  That  for  the  purpose  of  affording  better  edu- 
cational facilities  for  pupils  more  advanced  than  the  studies 
provided  in  the  district  schools  existing  in  the  several  counties 
in  this  State,  and  in  addition  to  such  school  districts  as  are  now 
organized,  or  which  may  'hereafter  be  formed  under  the  laws 
for  the  creation  and  formation  of  the  same,  there  may  be  organ- 
ized and  established  a  high  school  district  and  a  free  high 
school  therein  on  conditions  and  in  the  manner  hereinafter 
prescribed,  the  territorial  extent  of  which  may  embrace  any 
number  of  present  organized  and  constituted  school  districts, 
the  qualified  electors  of  which  may  vote  to  become  a  part  of 
such  high  school  district  and  participate  in  the  maintenance 
and  benefits  of  such  high  school  organization.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2051.] 

Body  Corporate. 

Sec.  207.  Each  high  school  district  which'  may  be  formed 
under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  is  hereby  declared  to  be  a 

body  corporate  by  the  name  and  style  of  " 

High  School,  State  of  Wyoming",  and  in  thiat  name  it  may 
[hold  property  and  be  a  party  to  suits  and  contracts.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2052.] 

How  Formed. 

Sec.  208.  Whenever  one  hundred  freeholders  in  any  ter- 
ritory sought  to  be  organized  into  a  high  school  district  under 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  a  portion  of  which  shall  be  free- 
'holders  of  each  school  district  intended  to  be  embraced  within 
such  high  school  district,  shall  petition  the  Board  of  County 
Commissioners  of  the  county  within  which  such  territory  is, 
requesting  the  organization  and  establishment  of  a  high  school 
district  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  defining  the  boun- 
daries thereof,  and  describing  the  lands  to  be  embraced  therein, 
by  townships  and  ranges  or  fractions  of  townships,  the  Board 
shall,  at  their  first  meeting  thereafter,  give  twenty  days'  notice 
by  publication  in  the  official  paper  of  said  county  that  the 
question  of  the  creation  of  such  high  school  district  will  be 
submitted  to  the  electors  of  the  territory  so  to  be  embraced  in 
such  hi^b  school  district  at  a  designated  time,  not  to  exceed 
thirty  days  from  the  expiration  of  the  said  twenty  days'  notice, 
whether  such  high  school  district  shall  be  created  and  estab- 
lished. In  addition  to  said  notice,  the  Trustees  in  the  several 
school  districts  embraced  within  such  territory  thus  to  be 


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organized  into  such  high  school  district,  shall  be  notified  by 
such  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the  holding  of  said 
election  immediately  after  the  first  publication  of  the  notice 
provided  for  in  this  section.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said 
School  Trustees  to  post  a  copy  of  said  published  notice  on  the 
front  door  of  each  school  house  in  their  said  respective  districts 
of  such  impending  election.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2053.] 

Election — Called  (by  County  Commissioners. 

Sec.  209.  'Such  election  shall  be  conducted  in  all  respects 
the  same  as  the  election  for  School  Trustees,  except  that  the 
said  Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall  call  the  election  and 
that  there  shall  be  no  registration  of  voters  required  or  printed 
ballots  furnished.  Each  school  district  to  constitute  a  part  of 
such  high  school  district,  shall  constitute  a  voting  precinct  for 
the  purpose  of  this  chapter.  [C.  'S.  1910,  Sec.  2054.] 

Failure  Trustees  to  Open  Election. 

Sec.  210.  If  for  any  reason  the  Trustees  of  any  such 
school  district  fail  to  open  such  election  in  the  manner  pro- 
vided, then  and  in  such  event  the  qualified  electors  of  such 
school  district  assembled  at  the  time  and  place  for  holding 
such  election  shall  organize  by  appointing  a  Chairman  and 
Secretary,  who  shall  act  as  judges  of  such  election.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2055.] 

Judges  of  Election. 

Sec.  211.  In  school  districts  having  six  Trustees,  three 
of  their  number  shall  be  designated  by  them  to  act  as  judges 
of  such  election,  but  if  for  any  reason  they  do  not  appear,  the 
qualified  electors  of  such  school  district  there  assembled  may 
proceed  to  elect  three  persons  having  the  qualifications  of 
electors  to  act  as  judges  thereat.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2056.] 

Election  by  Ballot. 

*  Sec.  212.  Said  election  shall  'be  by  ballot  either  written 
or  printed  and  none  but  qualified  electors  of  such  school  dis- 
trict shall  be  permitted  to  vote  thereat.  And  the  name  of  each 
person  voting  shall  be  recorded  by  the  judges  certified  as  such 
and  return  thereof  made  with  the  'ballots  .as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided. Those  in  favor  of  the  creation  land  organization  of  the 
high  school  district  shall  write  or  print  on  their  ballots  "For 
high  school  district".  Those  opposed  to  the  creation  and  or- 
ganization of  the  high  school  district  shall  write  or  print  on 
their  ballots,  "Opposed  to  high  school  district".  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2057.] 

Canvass. 

Sec.  213.  After  the  election  the  'ballots  on  said  question 
shall  be  canvassed  in  the  same  manner  ias  for  School  Trustees, 


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except  that  the  judges  of  such  election  in  the  different  pre- 
cincts shall  forward  the  returns  by  registered  mail  to  the 
county  clerk  of  the  county  to  be  canvassed  and  the  result  to  be 
determined  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners.  The  work 
of  canvassing  the  returns  shall  be  expeditiously  done,  and  if 
for  any  reason  delay  should  occur  in  forwarding  the  returns 
from  the  different  precincts  or  from  any  of  them,  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners  shall  see  that  the  delayed  returns  are 
promptly  obtained.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2058.] 

When  Created — Appointment  First  Trustees. 

Sec.  214.  When  the  returns  of  such  election  shall  have 
been  received  by  the  county  clerk,  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners shall  proceed  without  delay  to  canvass  the  same, 
and  determine  and  declare  the  result  of  such  election,  and 
enter  the  same  upon  their  minutes.  'Such  high  school  district 
shall  be  created,  and  said  Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall 
declare  the  same  to  be  composed  of  all  precincts  wherein  a 
majority  vote  has  been  in  favor  of  said  proposition.  The  Bop^/1 
of  County  Commissioners  shall  give  notice  of  the  result  of  the 
election,  naming  the  territory  embraced  in  such  created  high 
school  district,  as  shown  by  the  election  and  as  provided  in 
this  section,  and  thereupon  such  territory  shall  at  once  be 
created  and  constitute  such  high  school  district.  The  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  shall  thereafter,  by  order  duly  en- 
tered, promptly  proceed  to  appoint  six  persons  possessing  qual- 
ifications of  electors  within  the  described  territory  and  tax- 
payers thereof,  who  shall,  with  the  County  Superintendent  as 
ex  officio  meniber  thereof,  constitute  a  Board  of  Trustees  of 
said  high  school  district.  Each  of  such  Trustees  so  appointed 
shall  hold  office  until  the  first  Monday  in  May  next  following 
his  appointment,  and  until  his  successor  is  elected  and  quali- 
fied and  shall  within  ten  days  of  his  appointment  qualify  by 
taking  the  oath  required  of  county  officers,  and  giving  bond 
as  may  be  required  by  the  County  Commissioners  for  the  faith- 
ful discharge  of  his  duties,  whereupon  said  high  school  district 
shall  become  fully  organized.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2059.] 

Election  of  Trustees— Time. 

Sec.  215.  The  election  of  High  School  District  Trustees 
shall  be  held  at  the  same  time  and  place  and  in  the  siame  manner 
as  Trustees  of  other  school  districts  except  that  in  high  school 
district  elections  the  returns  shall  be  made  to  the  county  clerk 
of  the  county,  and  the  same  canvassed,  the  result  determined 
and  declared  by  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  as  in  the 
organization  of  a  high  school  district.  The  acting  and  quali- 
fied Trustees  of  such  high  school  district  may,  until  otherwise 
provided  by  law,  make  rules  and  regulations  to  secure  uni- 
formity in  the  nomination  of  candidate's  for  such  Trustees; 


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Provided,  however,  That  no  such  rules  and  regulations  shall 
abridge  the  right  of  qualified  voters  to  vote  for  any  candidate 
they  nmy  desire  for  such  Trustees.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2060.] 

Trustees — Terms. 

Sec.  216.  There  shall  be  elected  in  each  high  school  dis- 
trict at  the  regular  annual  school  election  on  the  first  Monday 
in  May  of  each  year,  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  by  law 
for  the  election  of  Trustees  for  school  districts,  except  as  pro- 
vided in  the  preceding  section,  three  Trustees  for  such  higih 
school  district,  who  shall  hold  office  for  a  term  of  two  years 
and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified.  On  the 
next  succeeding  first  Monday  in  May  after  the  establishment 
of  a  high  school  district  there  shall  be  elected  in  said  district 
six  Trustees,  who  shall  'be  divided  into  two  classes  of  three 
each.  The  term  of  those  in  the  first  class  shall  expire  one 
year  from  the  first  Monday  in  May  following  their  election, 
and  the  term  of  those  in  the  second  class  shall  expire  two  years 
from  the  first  Monday  in  May  following  their  election.  When 
a  vacancy  occurs  in  the  office  of  Trustees  in  said  district  by 
death,  resignation,  removal  from  the  district  or  otherwise,  the 
fact  of  said  vacancy  shall  be  immediately  certified  by  the  Secre- 
tary, and  such  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  appointment  by  said 
Board  of  Trustees  until  the  next  annual  election,  at  which  time 
such  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by  election.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2061.] 

Quorum. 

Sec.  217.  A  majority  of  such  Board  of  Trustees  shall 
constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  all  business,  but 
four  votes  shall  be  required  to  decide  any  question.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2062.] 

Where  Located. 

Sec.  218.  The  high  school  in  said  district  shall  be  located 
at  the  county  seat  of  government  whenever  said  county  seat 
is  within  the  territory  constituting  such  district,  and  a  high 
school  may  'be  located  in  any  other  district  selected  by  the 
electors  of  said  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2063.] 

Powers  of  Board — Officers. 

Sec.  219.  At  their  first  meeting  in  each  year  the  Trustees 
shall  choose  from  their  numlber  a  President  and  a  Secretary, 
who  shall  hold  office  for  one  year  or  until  their  successors  are 
chosen  and  qualified.  The  County  Treasurer  of  the  county 
wherein  such  high  school  district  is,  shall  be  the  custodian  of 
all  funds  available  for  such  school  purposes,  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter.  Payment  shall  be  made  by  said  Treas- 
urer upon  warrants,  drawn  against  said  funds  duly  signed  by 
the  President  and  Secretary.  The  Trustees  shall  have  author- 
ity to  make  all  necessary  rules  for  the  government  of  siaid  high 


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school  not  inconsistent  with  law,  and  shall  possess  all  powers 
which  may  be  delegated  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  other 
school  districts,  at  the  annual  meetings  thereof.  Such  high 
school  districts  shall  be  recognized  as  one  of  the  regular  consti- 
tuted school  districts  of  the  county,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  and 
shiall  receive  all  the  rights  and  benefits  as  such.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2064.] 

Tax  Levy — Bonds. 

Sec.  220.  At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
after  any  election  in  each  year,  or  at  any  appropriate  time,  the 
said  Trustees  shall  make  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of  funds 
needed  for  building  purposes,  for  the  payment  of  teachers' 
wages  and  for  the  payment  of  contingent  expenses,  and  they 
shall  present  to  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  a  certified 
estimate  of  the  tax  required  to  raise  the  amount  desired  for 
such  purpose.  But  in  no  case  shall  the  tax  for  such  purpose 
exceed  in  any  one  year  the  amount  of  ten  mills  on  the  dollar 
on  all  taxable  property  in  said  district,  and  when  the  tax  is 
levied  for  the  payment  of  teachers'  wages  and  contingent  ex- 
penses only,  it  shall  not  exceed  two  mills  on  the  dollar. 

Provided,  That  said  Trustees  may,  if  in  their  judgment 
they  think  best,  bond  said  district  for  the  purpose  of  raising 
money  necessary  to  build,  equip  a  high  school  in  said  district, 
and  to  purchase  a  suitable  site  therefor.  But  no  bonds  shall 
ever  be  issued  to  pay  teachers'  salaries,  or  for  the  general 
expenses  in  maintaining  said  school,  or,  further,  that  no  bonds 
shall  be  issued,  by  such  district  beyond  the  united  bonding 
capability  of  the  territory  embraced  within  such  district,  tak- 
ing into  consideration  existing  obligations  thereof  at  the  time 
of  the  creation  of  such  high,  school  district,  nor  shall  the  is- 
suance of  any  such  bonds  impair  any  outstanding  obligations 
of  any  portion  of  the  territory  embraced  within  such  high 
school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2065.]  ' 

Submission  of  Bonding  Question  to  Electors. 

Sec.  221.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  hi^h  school  dis- 
trict, whenever  a  majority  of  the  Board  shall  so  desire,  may 
submit  to  the  electors  of  said  district  the  question  of  whether 
the  Board  shall  issue  bonds  of  said  district  for  the  purchase 
or  erection  of  a  building  for  high  school  purposes  and  the 
equipment  and  for  a  suitable  site  therefor,  provided  that  no 
such  district  shall  be  bonded  for  the  above  purpose  in  any 
amount  to  exceed  $50,000.00  and  provided  such  bonds  must 
run  a  term  of  twenty-five  years  or  less,  but  no  longer,  and 
provided  any  such  issue  of  bonds  shall  not  increase  the  school 
indebtedness  of  the  territory  of  said  district  beyond  the  maxi- 
mum limit  fixed  by  the  State  constitution.  Said  election  shall 
be  held  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  this  chapter  for  the  sub- 


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mission  of  the  question  of  the  establishment  of  said  high 
school  district,  except  that  the  Board  of  High  School  Trustees 
shall  officiate  in  the  place  of  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners in  giving  the  notices  for  and  in  determining  the  result 
of  said  election.  The  ballot  shall  be  in  the  form  as  follows: 

"Shall  bonds  be  issued  and  sold  to  the  amount  $ , 

bearing per  cent  interest,  for  the  purpose  of  purchas- 
ing a  school  lot  and  building  a  school  thereon  and  to  equip 
the  same?" 

"Bonds,  Yes." 

"Bonds,  No." 

The  ballots  herein  provided  for  shall  be  printed  and  fur- 
nished in  sufficient  quantities  at  the  different  polling  places 
for  the  use  of  the  electors  by  the  Board  of  High  School  Trustees. 
The  elector  shall  prepare  his  ballot  by  crossing  out  thereon 
parts  of  the  ballots  in  such  a  manner  that  the  remaining  part 
shall  express  his  vote  upon  the  question  submitted.  If  a  ma- 
jority of  the  votes  cast  at  such  election  are  "Bonds,  Yes", 
the  Board  of  High  School  Trustees  shall  issue  such  bonds  in 
such  form  as  the  Board  may  direct  and  shall  -bear  the  signature 
of  the  President  and  the  Secretary  of  such  Board  written  in  ink. 
The  coupons  attached  to  said  bonds  shall  'be  signed  in  the  same 
manner.  Lithographic  or  fac  simile  signatures  of  the  President 
and  Secretary  may  be  affixed  to  the  coupons  only  when  so 
stated  in  the  bonds.  Each  bond  so  issued  shall  be  registered 
by  the  County  Treasurer  in  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose, 
which  shall  show  the  number  and  amount  of  each  bond  and  the 
person  to  whom  same  is  issued.  Said  bonds  shall  be  sold  by 
said  Trustees  in  the  manner  provided  for  the  sale  of  school  dis- 
trict bonds,  and  the  moneys  arising  from  the  sale  thereof  shall 
be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  county  to  the  credit  of  said  high 
school  district.  The  faith  of  the  said  high  school  district  is 
solemnly  pledged  for  the  interest  and  redemption  of  the  prin- 
cipal of  the  bonds  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter. 
The  County  Commissioners  at  the  time  of  making  the  levy  of 
taxes  for  county  purposes  shall  levy  a  tax  for  that  year  upon 
the  taxable  property  in  said  high  school  district  for  the  interest 
and  redemption  of  said  bonds,  and  said  tax  must  not  be  less 
than  sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  of  said  bonds  for  that  year 
and  such  proportion  of  the  principal  as  will  come  due  during 
such  year,  and  in  any  event  must  be  high  enough  to  raise  an- 
nually for  the  first  half  of  the  term,  (and)  high  enough  to  pay 
such  annual  interest  and  to  pay  annually  a  portion  of  the 
principal  of  said  bonds  equal  to  the  sum  pledged  by  taking  the 
whole  amount  of  said  bonds  outstanding  and  dividing  it  by  the 
numfber  of  years  for  which  said  bonds  have  to  run,  and  all 
moneys  so  collected  must  be  paid  into  the  county  treasury  to 
the  credit  of  said  high  school  district  and  kept  in  a  separate 


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fund,  and  to  be  used  for  the  payment  of  the  principal  and 
interest  on  said  bonds,  and  for  no  other  purpose.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2066.] 

Payment  of  Bonds. 

Sec.  222.  Said  bonds  shall  be  paid,  principal  and  interest, 
in  the  manner  provided  for  the  pavment  of  school  district 
bonds.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2067.] 

Estimate  for  Maintenance  When  Bonds  Are  Issued. 

Sec.  223.  In  case  bonds  are  issued,  then  the  Trustees,  in 
making  estimates  for  the  maintenance  of  the  high  school,  shall 
not  include  estimates  for  buildings  or  whatever  said  bonds 
are  issued  for.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2068.] 

Collection  of  Tax. 

Sec.  224.  The  tax  provided  for  in  Section  2065  shall  be 
levied  and  collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other  county  taxes, 
and  when  collected  the  County  Treasurer  shall  place  the  same 
to  the  credit  of  said  high  school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2069.] 

Record  of  Proceedings. 

Sec.  225.  The  said  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  high  school 
district  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  the  official  acts  done  by  said 
Board,  shall  keep  a  full  record  of  all  warrants  issued  against 
the  moneys  belonging  to  said  high  school  district.  Payments 
of  money  can  only  (be  made  upon  warrants  drawn  against  funds 
belonging  to  said  high  school  district  and  the  warrants  so 
drawn  must  specify  upon  their  face  the  purpose  for  which 
funds  called  for  by  the  warrants  so  issued.  Said  Board  of 
Trustees  of  said  high  school  district  shall  provide,  at  the  ex- 
pense of  their  district  and  for  said  district,  a  seal,  upon  which 

shall  be  engraved  the  words  "  . . .  v County  High 

School,  State  of  Wyoming",  said  blank  space  to  contain  the 
name  of  the  county  wherein  is  located  such  high  school  district. 
Tlhe  seal  shall  be  kept  in  possession  of  the  clerk  of  said  dis- 
trict. Said  seal  shall  be  affixed  to  all  communications  or  no- 
tices required  by  law  to  be  sent  or  published  by  said  High 
School  Board  and  to  all  warrants  drawn  upon  the  Treasurer  of 
said  High  School  Trustees.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2070.] 

Trustees  Provide  Suitable  Buildings. 

Sec.  226.  The  said  Board  of  Trustees  shall  proceed  as 
soon  as  practicable  after  their  appointment  land  qualification 
to  establish  the  high  school  contemplated  by  this  chapter,  and 
may  at  their  discretion  lease  suitable  buildings  for  the  use  of 
the  high  school  while  the  new  buildings  are  in  process  of 
erection,  or  may  contract  with  the  trustees  of  the  local  school 
district,  or  with  other  parties  for  the  use  of  suitable  buildings 


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for  such  high  school  purpose,  and  for  such  time  as  may  be 
•deemed  best  for  the  interest  of  such  high  school  district,  and 
if  at  any  time  the  qualified  electors  of  such  district  shall  vote 
bonds,  as  herein  provided,  said  trustees  shall  select  the  best 
site  that  can  be  obtained  and  the  title  thereto,  upon  procuring 
such  site,  purchased  or  otherwise,  shall  vest  in  such  high  school 
district  under  the  name  herein  provided  for  and  the  Trustees 
shall  then  proceed  to  make  purchase  of  material  and  to  build 
said  building  thereon,  or  to  let  such  contracts  for  the  neces- 
sary school  buildings  as  they  may  deem  proper.  They  shall 
not,  however,  make  any  purchase  or  enter  into  any  contract 
whereby  obligations  are  assumed  in  excess  of  the  amount  of 
funds  on  hand  or  available  through  the  levy  of  taxes  or  the  is- 
suance of  bonds  for  the  current  year.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2071.] 

Employment  of  Faculty. 

Sec.  227.  After  suitable  buildings  are  secured  as  herein 
above  provided  for  the  carrying  on  of  said  high  school,  the 
Trustees  shall  employ  some  suitable  person  to  take  charge  of 
said  school,  who  shall  be  known  as  principal  of  said  school, 
land  who  shall  possess  such  qualifications  as  may  be  prescribed 
'by  said  Board  of  Trustees,  except  that  said  principal  shall  be 
required  to  possess  at  least  five  years'  experience  in  teaching, 
and  the  Trustees  shall  furnish  such  assistant  teachers  as  they 
may  deem  necessary,  and  shall  designate  the  salaries  which 
shall  be  paid  such  principal  and  assistant  teachers.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2072.] 

Government. 

Sec.  228.  The  principal  of  any  such  high  school,  with 
the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  shall  make  such  rules 
and  regulations  as  may  be  deemed  proper  in  regard  to  study, 
conduct  and  government  of  the  pupils  under  his  charge ;  and 
if  any  such  pupil  shall  not  conform  to  or  obey  the  rules  of  the 
school,  they  may  be  suspended  or  expelled  therefrom  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2073.] 

Courses  of  Study. 

Sec.  229.  There  shall  be  provided  such  courses  of  study 
as  will  prepare  and  fit  a  student  attending  such  high  school 
for  admission  to  the  University  of  this  State,  and  such  courses 
of  study  must  be  sufficient  for  such  purposes.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2074.] 

Military  Training  in  High  Schools. 

Sec.  230.  The  high  schools  maintained  in  two  or  more 
separate  school  districts  or  in  separate  high  school  districts  of 
the  State  may  by  arrangement  between  the  respective  Boards 
of  Trustees  of  such  districts,  approved  by  the  State  Board  of 
Education,  be  united  under  joint  administrative  control  of  the 


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State  Board,  for  the  purposes  contemplated  toy  this  act.  [L. 
1919,  Chap.  93,  Sec.  1.] 

Sec.  231.  Any  group  of  high  schools  so  united  shall  be 
designated  in  the  order  of  its  establishment  as  Joint  Adminis- 
trative High  School  District  No The  State  Board  of 

Education  is  hereby  charged  with  the  power  and  duty  of  rep- 
resenting and  acting  for  such  joint  district  in  its  relations  with 
the  United  States  so  far  as  the  same  may  relate  to  military 
training  carried  on  in  such  schools.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  93,  Sec.  2.] 

Sec.  232.  No  financial  obligations  shall  be  imposed  upon 
any  joint  district  except  with  the  approval  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  its  constituent  districts.  Such  obligations  when  im- 
posed shall  be  shared  by  the  constituent  districts  in  proportion 
to  the  numbers  of  students  undergoing  military  training  in 
each.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  93,  Sec.  3.] 

Sec.  233.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  annually, 
and  at  such  times  as  it  may  be  requested  by  the  Boards  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  districts,  report  fully  to  such  districts  concerning  its 
action  and  proceedings  under  this  act.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  93, 
Sec.  4.] 

Tuition — Admission. 

Sec.  234.  Tuition  shall  be  free  to  all  pupils  who  are 
bona  fide  residents  of  said  high  school  district.  The  Board  of 
Trustees  shall  make  such  general  rules  and  regulations  as  they 
deem  proper  in  regard  to  age  and'  grade  of  attainments  es- 
sential to  entitle  pupils  to  admission  to  said  school ;  Provided, 
That  no  person  shall  be  admitted  to  such  high  school  who  shall 
not  have  passed  a  satisfactory  examination,  or  who  does  not 
hold  an  eighth  grade  common  school  certificate.  If  there  shall 
be  more  '.applicants  than  can  be  accommodated  at  any  one  time, 
each  district  shall  be  entitled  to  send1  its  proportionate  number 
of  pupils  according  to  the  number  of  pupils  it  may  have  as 
shown  by  the  last  report  of  the  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools,  and  the  Boards  of  the  respective  school  districts  shall 
designate  such  pupils  as  shall  attend  subject  to  the  proviso 
above  stated.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2075.] 

Admission  of  Pupils  from  Other  Districts. 

Sec.  235.  If  at  any  time  the  school  can  accommodate 
more  pupils  than  apply  for  admission  from  the  district,  the 
vacancies  may  be  filled  by  applicants1  from  other  counties  or 
school  districts,  upon  the  payment  of  such  tuition  as  the  Board 
of  Trustees  may  prescribe,  but  at  no  time  shall  such  pupils  re- 
main in  said  school  to  the  exclusion  of  pupils  residing  in  the 
district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2076.] 


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Mileage  of  Trustees — No  Compensation — Reports. 

Sec.  236.  The  Trustees  of  said  high  school  district  who 
do  not  reside  at  the  place  where  said  high  school  is  established 
are  entitled  to  mileage  in  attending  the  meetings  of  the  Board. 
The  Trustees  of  said  high  school  shall  serve  without  compensa- 
tion, iand  the  Board1  shall  make  such  reports  from  time  to  time 
as  the  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  or  the  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  may  require.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2077.] 

Certificates  of  Graduation — Admission  to  State  University. 

Sec.  237.  Upon  the  presentation  of  a  certificate  of  gradua- 
tion from  any  such  high  school  within  one  year  of  the  date 
of  same,  to  any  State  institution  of  learning,  the  person  pre- 
senting the  same  may  be  admitted  without  further  examina- 
tion to  said  institution  of  learning.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2078.] 

No  Tuition  to  Bona  Fide  Residents. 

Sec.  238.  Such  high  school  shall  be  free  to  all  persons 
of  school  age,  possessing  the  qualifications,  who  are  bona  fide 
residents  of  said  high  school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2079.] 

Districts — How  Annexed. 

Sec.  239.  Whenever  any  "high  school  district"  shall  have 
been  created  in  any  county  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter, 
and  any  school  district  in  the  county  wherein  said  "high  school 
district"  is  located  shall  not,  at  the  time  of  the  election  on 
the  establishment  of  such  "high  school  district",  cast  a  ma- 
jority vote  in  favor  of  such  proposition,  such  school  district 
may  iat  any  time  thereafter  become  a  part  of  such  "high 
school  district"  in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2080.] 

Petition  for  Annexation. 

Sec.  240.  Whenever  ten  freeholders  in  any  such  school 
district  mentioned  in  Section  2080  hereof,  not  incorporated 
within  such  high  school  district  as  mentioned  in  Section  2080 
hereof,  shall  petition  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  the 
county  wherein  said  school  district  is  located  to  make  such 
school  district  a  part  of  such  "high  school  district"  as  men- 
tioned in  Section  2080  hereof,  describing  the  lands  embraced 
in  said  school  district  by  townships  iand1  ranges,  or  fractions  of 
townships,  the  said  Board  shall,  at  their  first  meeting  there- 
after, give  twenty  days'  notice  by  publication  in  the  official 
paper  of  said  county  that  the  question  whether  such  territory 
shall  be  incorporated  within  said  "high  school  district"  will 
be  submitted  to  the  electors  of  suc;h  school  district  at  a  desig- 
nated time,  which  shall  not  exceed  thirty  days  from  the  expira- 
tion of  said  twenty  days'  notice.  In  addition  to  said  notice,  the 
Trustees  in  said  school  district  thus  intended  to  be  incorporated 


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into  the  said  "high  school  district"  shall  be  notified  imme- 
diately after  the  first  publication  of  said  notice  by  such  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  of  the  holding  of  such  election,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  said  School  Trustees  to  post  a  copy  of  said 
published  notice  on'  the  front  door  of  each  school  house  in  said 
school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2081.] 

Submission  of  Question. 

Sec.  241.  Such  election  shall  be  conducted  in  all  respects 
as  near  as  may  be,  as  provided  in  Sections  2054,  2055,  2056, 
2057,  and  2058,  and  the  duties  and  acts  to  be  performed  shall 
be  performed  in  the  same  manner,  and1  by  the  same  persons 
as  therein  specified.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2082.] 

Returns — Commissioners '  Action. 

Sec.  242.  When  the  returns  of  such  election  shall  have 
been  received  by  the  county  clerk,  of  said  county,  tftre  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  shall  proceed  without  delay  to  can- 
vasis  the  same,  determine  and  declare  the  result  of  such  elec- 
tion, and  enter  the  same  upon  their  minutes,  and  if  a  majority 
vote  of  such  school  district  has  been  cast  in  favor  of  incorporat- 
ing such  school  district  within  said  "high  school  district", 
then  such  school  district  shall  at  once  become  a  part  of  and  be 
incorporated  within  such  "high  school  district"  with  the  same 
force  and  effect  and  to  all  intents  and  purposes  as  though 
originally  embraced  therein,  and  for  the  purpose  of  maintain- 
ing iand  supporting  the  said  "high  school  district"  and  its 
purposes  and  objects  and  to  pay  the  current  or  other  expenses, 
or  pay  the  bonded  indebtedness  or  the  interest  thereon,  the 
property  of  such  school  district,  so  incorporated  within  said 
"high  school  district"  shall  after  such  incorporation  in  each 
year  be  subject  to  the  same  taxation  as  the  property  of  the 
other  territory  embraced  within  said  "high  school  district" 
and  be  subject  to  all  the  laws,  rules  and  regulations  governing 
such  "high  school  district"  as  though  originally  incorporated 
therein.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2083.] 


GENERAL  ELECTIONS. 

Vacancy  in  State  Office. 

Sec.  243.  At  each  of  said  general  elections  there  shall 
also  be  elected  such  State  officers  as  may  be  required  to  be 
elected  to  fill  <any  vacancy  occurring  by  operation  of  law,  or 
the  Constitution  of  this  State,  including  any  vacancy  or  vacan- 
cies in  the  office  of  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2087.] 


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State  Officers. 

Sec.  244.  At  the  general  election  held  in  the  year  one 
thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-four,  and  at  the  general 
election  held  every  fourth  year  thereafter,  there  shall  be  elected 
a  Governor,  a  Secretary  of  State,  an  Auditor,  a  Treasurer,  a 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  and  such  other  State 
officers  as  are,  or  may  be,  created  'by  law,  and  made  elective, 
whose  election  shall  occur,  or  ought  to  occur  at  such  general 
election.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2088.] 

County  Officers  to  Be  Elected. 

Sec.  245.  The  following  county  and  precinct  officers  shall 
hold  their  office  by  election;  and  there  shall  be  held  in  the 
several  voting  precincts  of  this  State,  on  the  Tuesday  next  .fol- 
lowing the  first  Monday  in  November,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-two,  and!  on  the  Tues- 
day next  following  the  first  Monday  in  November,  in  each 
second  year  thereafter,  a  general  election  at  which  the  follow- 
ing county  and  precinct  officers  shall  be  elected : 

The  Clerk. 

The  Commissioners. 

The  Surveyors. 

The  Sheriff. 

The  County  Treasurer. 

The  County  and  Prosecuting  Attorney. 

The  Superintendent  of  Schools. 

The  Assessor. 

The  Coroner. 

The  Justices  of  the  Peace. 

The  Constables. 

The  Clerk  of  the  District  Court  for  each  county,  whenever 
his  term  of  office  shall  expire  before  the  next  general  election, 
or  whenever  a. vacancy  therein  is  to  be  filled,  and  such  other 
county  and  precinct  officers  which  may  be  created  and  mad'e 
elective  by  law.  In  counties  having  an  assessed  valuation  not 
exceeding  five  million  dollars,  the  County  Clerk  shall  be  ex- 
officio  Clerk  of  the  District  Court,  and  shall  perform  all  the 
duties  pertaining  to  the  office  of  Clerk  of  the  District  Court, 
but  shall  receive  no  additional  or  separate  compensation  there- 
for. [C.  'S.  1910,  Sec.  2091.] 

Relating  to  General  Elections— Who  May  Vote. 

Sec.  246.  Except  as  hereinafter  provided,  every  person 
shall  be  qualified  and  entitled  to  vote  who  is  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States  and  over  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  and  who 
has  been  a  bona  fide  resident  of  Wyoming  for  one  year  and 
of  the  county  wherein  his  residence  is  located  sixty  days  next 
preceding  the  election  at  which  he  votes  and  of  the  election  dis- 


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trict  wherein  he  seeks  to  vote  for  a  period  of  ten  days  next  pre- 
ceding election  .and  who  shall  be  able  to  read  the  Constitution 
of  this  State  and  who  has  complied!  with  the  provisions  of  law 
concerning  registration;  Provided,  however,  That  any  person 
prevented  by  physical  disability  from  being  able  to  read  the 
Constitution  of  this  State  shall  not  for  this  reason  while  labor- 
ing under  such  disability  be  deprived  of  his  right  to  vote ;  Pro- 
vided, further,  That  where  any  qualified  elector  who  has  reg- 
istered in  any  other  precinct  in  such  city  or  town  before  the 
date  of  election,  such  voter  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  in  the  pre- 
cinct where  registered;  Provided,  further,  That  any  person 
who  is  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  and  who  was  a  qualified 
elector  on  the  tenth/  day  of  July  in  the  year  1890  and  who  has 
since  then  continued  to  be  a  resident  in  this  State  and  who 
has  complied  with  the  provisions  of  law  concerning  registra- 
tion shall  continue  to  be  an  elector  of  this  State ;  and,  Pro- 
vided, moreover,  That  any  person  who  is  serving  in  the  army 
of  the  United  States  or  is  an  officer  or  soldier  and  wftio  is  resid- 
ing on  any  military  reservation  in  this  State  shall  not  be  en- 
titled to  vote  at  any  election  held  in  this  State  unless  such 
person  has  acquired  the  rights  of  citizenship  by  residence 
therein  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  one  year  while  serving  in 
the  army  of  the  United  States  as  such  officer  or  soldier.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2092.] 

Special  County  Elections  Shall  be  Ordered  by  County  Com- 
missioners. 

Sec.  247.  All  special  elections  for  county  and  precinct 
officers  shall  be  ordered  by  the  County  Commissioners,  which 
order  shall  be  countersigned  by  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2.110.] 

Vacancy  in  Office — Who  Determines  Fact  Of. 

Sec.  248.  Whenever  it  is  alleged  that  a  vacancy  in  any 
office  exists,  the  officer,  court  or  county  board,  whose  duty  it 
is  to  fill  thie  vacancy,  by  appointment,  or  to  order  an  election 
to  fill  such  vacancy,  shall  have  power  to  determine  whether  or 
not  the  facts  occasioning  such  vacancy  exist.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2112.] 

Who  May  Vote  at  Special  Elections. 

Sec.  249.  All  persons  who  have  registered  either  during 
the  registration  period  immediately  preceding  a  special  elec- 
tion, or  a  municipal  election,  or  who  hiave  registered  less  than 
two  years  before  such  election,  during  a  regular  registration 
period!  for  county  elections,  or  during  any  special  or  municipal 
registration  period,  subsequent  to  such  regular  county  election, 
shall  be  entitled  to  vote  at  such  special  election,  or  municipal 
election,  as  the  case  may  be,  in  the  precinct  in  which  they  regis- 


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tered.  The  provisions  of  law  governing  registration  and  elec- 
tions shall  apply  to  all  special  elections  and  municipal  elections. 
[C.  S.  1910,  'Sec.  2113.] 


GENERAL  PROVISIONS. 

Qualifications  of  Office  Holders. 

Sec.  250.  No  person  shall  be  eligible  to  any  office  who, 
at  the  time  he  is  chosen  and  during  his  incumbency  therein, 
is  not  a  qualified  elector  and  an  actual  resident  of  the  district, 
county,  town,  ward  or  precinct,  as  the  case  may  be,  in  which 
he  hioldls  such  office.  [C.  'S.  1910,  Sec.  2273.] 

Woman  Suffrage. 

Sec.  251.  When  they  possess  the  other  qualifications  of 
an  elector,  the  rights  of  women  to  the  elective  franchise  and 
to  hold  office  shall  be  the  same  as  those  of  men.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2274.] 

Persons  Disqualified  from  Voting  or  Holding  Office. 

Sec.  252.  The  following  persons  shall  not  vote  or  hold 
office: 

One  who  is  under  guardianship. 

One  who  is  non  compos  mentis. 

One  who  has  been  within  Wyoming  convicted  of  any  fel- 
only,  unless  restored  to  civil  rights  by  pardon. 

One  who  has  made  or  become,  either  directly  or  indirectly, 
interested  in  any  bet  or  wager  depending  upon  the  result  of 
the  election  iat  which]  he  or  she  shall  offer  to  vote.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2275.] 

Resignation  of  Elective  Offices. 

Sec.  253.  Besignation  of  elective  offices  shall  be  made 
to  the  officer,  court  or  county  board  authorized  by  law  to  fill 
a  vacancy  in  such  office  by  appointment  or  to  order  an  election 
to  fill  such  vacancy.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2276.] 

Vacancies  in  Elective  Offices — How  Made. 

Sec.  254.  Every  elective  office  shall  become  vacant  on 
the  happening  of  either  of  the  following  events  to  the  incum- 
bent before  the  end  of  his  term  of  office : 

1.  His  death. 

2.  His  resignation. 

3.  His  becoming  insane  or  non  'Compos  mentis. 

4.  His  ceasing  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  State,  or  if  the 
office  is  local,  his  ceasing  to  be  an  inhabitant  of  the  district, 
town,  ward  or  precinct  for  which  he  was  elected. 

5.  His  conviction  of  an  infamous  crime  or  of  any  offense 
involving  a  violation  of  official  oath. 

6.  His  removal  from  office. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  77 

7.  His  refusal  or  neglect  to  take  his  oath  of  office,  or  to 
give  or  renew  his  official  bond,  or  to  deposit  or  file  such  oath 
or  bond  within  the  time  prescribed  by  law. 

8.  The   decision   of   a   competent   tribunal   declaring   his 
election  void.     [C.  S.  1910,  Sec,  2277.] 


TAXATION  AND  REVENUE. 

Purposes  for  Which  Taxes  Levied — Limitations  Upon  Amount. 

Sec.  255.  There  shall  be  levied  and  assessed  upon  the 
taxable  real  and  personal  property  within  this  State  in  each 
year,  the  following  taxes : 

First — For  State  revenue,  four  mills  on  the  dollar  when 
no  rate  is  directed  by  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  before 
the  date  in  each  year  when  the  tax  ought  to  be  levied  and 
assessed,  but  in  no  case  shall  the  tax  for  State  revenue  pur- 
poses exceed  said  four  mills  on  the  dollar;  except  for  the  sup- 
port of  State  educational  and  charitable  institutions,  the  pay- 
ment of  the  State  debt  and  thie  interest  thereon. 

Second — The  County  Commissioners  shall  annually  levy  a 
tax  for  the  support  of  the  common  schools  in  their  county,  not 
to  exceed  three  mills  on  the  dollar.  For  county  revenue  for 
all  purposes  there  shall  be  levied  annually  a  tax,  but  the  aggre- 
gate tax  for  county  revenue,  including  general  school  tax, 
shall  not  exceed  twelve  rniljs  on  the  dollar,  exclusive  of  State 
revenue,  except  for  the  payment  of  its  public  debt  and  the  in- 
terest thereon.  An  additional  tax  of  two  dollars  for  each  per- 
son between  the  ages  of  twenty-one  years  and  fifty  years, 
inclusive,  shall  be  annually  levied  for  county  school  purposes ; 
Provided,  always,  That  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  in 
each  and  every  county  of  this  State  shall  not  expend  in  any  one 
year,  from  out  of  the  revenue  so  raised,  for  the  support  of  the 
poor  and  lunatic  purposes,  a  sum  amounting  to  more  than  two 
mills  on  the  dollar  for  each  and  every  dollar  of  the  assessed 
valuation  of  the  property  within  their  county  for  the  then  cur- 
rent year;  for  road  purposes,  a  sum  not  amounting  to  more 
than  three  mills  on  the  dollar  of  each  and  every  dollar  of 
assessed  valuation  of  the  property  within  their  county  for  the 
then  current  year.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2320.] 

Property  Exempt  from  Taxation. 

Sec.  256.  The  following  described  property  is  hereby  ex- 
empted from  taxation : 

First — The  property  of  the  United  States  and  of  this  State, 
the  property  of  any  county,  township,  incorporated  cities, 
towns  and  school  districts,  public  libraries,  lots  with  the  build- 
ings thereon  used  exclusively  for  religious  worship,  church 


78  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

parsonages,  public  grounds  by  whomsoever  donated  to  the  pub- 
lic, including  all  places  for  the  burial  of  the  dead. 

Second — Fire  engines  and  all  implements  used  for  extin- 
guishing fires,  with  the  grounds  used  exclusively  for  the  build- 
ings of  a  fire  company  or  companies. 

Third — Household  and  kitchen  furniture,  beds  and  bed- 
ding, wearing  'apparel  of  every  person,  and  the  food  provided 
for  each  family,  not  to  exceed  in  all  the  value  of  one  hundred 
dollars. 

Fourth — The  polls  of  all  persons  who  have  arrived  at  the 
age  of  fifty  years. 

Fifth — The  property  of  .all  honorably  discharged  veterans 
of  the  Civil  War  to  the  amount  of  Two  Thousand  Dollars 
($2,000.00)  in  assessed  valuation.  [L.  1917,  Ohap.  87.] 

Property  Exempt  from  Taxation. 

Sec.  257.  That  lands,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  used 
for  schools,  orphan  asylums  or  hospitals,  and  for  lodge  rooms 
for  the  meetings  of  all  secret,  benevolent  and  charitable  so- 
cieties or  associations  shall  be  exempted  from  taxation  so  long 
as  said  lands  and  buildings  are  not  used  for  private  profit. 
[C:  S.  1910,  Sec.  2322.] 

Bonds  Exempt  from  Taxation. 

Sec.  258.  Coupon  or  registered  interest  bearing  bonds 
of  the  State  of  Wyoming,  or  iany  'co-unty,  school  district,  or  mu- 
nicipality of  the  'State  of  Wyoming  shall  be  exempt  from  taxa- 
tion when  owned  by  actual  residents  of  the  State,  provided, 
that  the  owner  or  owners  of  such  securities  shall  list  the  same 
annually  on  their  assessment  schedule,  describing  such  bonds 
and  the  amount  thereof,  and  s'hall  miark  opposite  thereto,  on 
such  schedule,  "exempt".  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2323.] 

What  Property  Subject  to  Taxation. 

'Sec.  259.  All  other  property,  real  andl  personal,  within 
this  State  is  subject  to  taxation  in  the  manner  herein  directed, 
and  this  section  is  intended  to  embrace  lands  and  lots  in  towns, 
including  lands  bought  from  the  United  States,  whether  bought 
on  a  credit  or  otherwise;  buildings  or  improvements  erected 
upon  lands,  the  title  to  which  still  remains  in  the  United  States, 
or  in  any  incorporated  company,  and  all  lands  entered  by 
pre-emption,  final  or  commuted  homestead,  or  as  desert  land, 
or  at  private  or  public  sale,  or  under  any  act  of  congress,  when 
final  receipt  therefor  has  been  issued,  shall  be  subject  to 
taxation  whether  patent  for  the  same  has  been  issued  or  not, 
and  when  such  final  proof  shall  have  been  made  before  the  1st 
day  of  April  in  any  year,  the  land  so  entered  shall  be  subject 
to  taxation  for  that  year.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  County 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  79 

Commissioners  of  each  county  to  obtain  from  the  officers  of 
the  United  'States  land  district  in  which  the  county  may.  be 
situated,  an  accurate  transcript  and  plat  of  sail  entries  and 
sales  of  public  land  which  may  or  should  be  subject  to  taxation 
under  the  laws  of  the  United  States,  or  of  this  State,  described 
by  land  numbers  in  their  respective  counties.  Such  transcripts 
shall  be  filed  and  preserved  in  their  office,  and  they  shall  have 
the  same  corrected!  each  year  by  obtaining  as  aforesaid,  addi- 
tional or  supplementary  transcripts.  On  the  first  Monday  in 
April  of  each  year,  they  shall  cause  to  be  furnished  to  the 
County  Assessor  of  the  county,  a  true  '.and  correct  plat  or  plats 
corrected  as  aforesaid  of  all  lands  hereinbefore  described,  sit- 
uate in  the  county,  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  and  re- 
quired to  make  any  appropriation  necessary  to  secure  the 
execution  of  the  work  provided  for  in  this  section.  Ferries, 
franchises  and  toll-bridges,  all  of  which,  for  the  purpose  of 
this  chapter,  shall  be  considered  real  property.  Horses  and 
neat  cattle,  mules  and  asses,  sheep,  swine,  goats,  and  all  dogs 
and  other  animals;  money  in  bank  bills,  coin  or  gold  dust, 
whether  in  possession  or  on  deposit ;  property,  money  or  labor, 
due  from  solvent  .debtors  on  contract,  or  on  judgment,  and 
whether  within  this  State  or  not;  mortgages  and  other  like 
securities,  stock  or  shares  in  any  bank  or  company,  incorpor- 
ated or  otherwise  and  whether  incorporated  by  this  or  any 
other  State,  and  whether  situated  in  this  State  or  not;  public 
stocks  or  loans,  household  furniture  not  otherwise  exemipt,  in- 
cluding gold  and  silver  plate,  musical  instruments,  watches 
and  jewelry,  pleasure  carriages,  stages,  hacks,  omnibuses  and 
other  vehicles  for  transporting  passengers,  wagons,  carts,  drays, 
sleds,  and  every  other  description  of  vehicle  or  carriage,  all 
real  and  personal  property  within  this  State  of  every  kind 
and  description  not  heretofore  enumerated,  belonging  to  or 
claimed1  by  any  incorporated  company,  whether  incorporated 
in  this  State  or  not,  annuities — but  not  including  pensions  from 
the  United  States,  or  any  'State,  nor  salaries,  nor  payment  for 
services  expected  to  be  rendered — and  all  other  property  not 
above  exempted,  although  not  herein  specified.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2324.] 

Tax  of  Equity  Interest  of  Holder  of  State  School  and  Other 
Lands. 

Sec.  260.  The  equity  or  interest  of  the  purchaser  or  his 
assignee  of  any  State  lands  sold  under  contract  shall  be  as- 
sessed and  taxed  as  other  property.  The  value  of  such  interest 
or  equity  shall  be  determined  by  taking  the  fair  value  of  the 
landls  and  deducting  therefrom  the  amount  of  principal  and 
accrued  interest  of  the  purchase  money  remaining  unpaid  on 
the  first  day  of  January  of  the  year  for  which  the  property  is 


80  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

assessed.  The  property  of  the  State  in  such  lands  shall  not  be 
assessed  or  taxed,  'but  the  interest  of  the  purchaser  or  his 
assignee  may  be  sold  in  the  same  manner  as  lands  are  sold  for 
taxes.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  134,  Sec.  1.] 

Sec.  261.  The  interest  or  equity  of  the  entryman  or  his 
assignee  in  public  lands  under  any  reclamation  project  in  this 
State,  shall  be  assessed  and  taxed  as  other  property.  The  value 
of  suc'h  interest  or  equity  shall  be  determined  (by  taking  the 
fair  value  of  the  lands  and  deducting  therefrom  the  amount  of 
principal  and  accrued  interest  owing  to  the  United  States  re- 
maining unpaid  on  the  first  day  of  January  of  the  year  for 
which  the  property  is  assessed.  The  property  of  the  United 
States  in  such  lands  shall  not  be  assessed  or  taxed  but  the 
interest  of  the  purchaser  or  his  assignee  may  be  sold  in  the 
same  manner  as  landte  are  sold  for  taxes.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  124, 
Sec.  2.] 

Time  of  Making  County  Levy — Form  of  Tax  List. 

Sec.  262.  On  the  first  Monday  of  September,  of  each 
year,  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  shall,  by  an  order 
to  be  entered  of  record  among  their  proceedings,  levy  the 
requisite  taxes  for  the  year,  and  the  same  may  be  levied  at  any 
time  prior  to  the  first  Monday  of  September,  if  the  statement 
and  notice  required  by  Section  2340  has  been  received  from 
the  auditor.  Immediately  after  the  taxes  have  been  levied 
the  County  Assessor  shall  compute  the  taxes  from  the  credit 
valuations  as  corrected  by  the  Board-  of  Equalization,  and  as 
entered  by  him  in  the  column  of  corrected  valuations  in  the 
combined  assessment  roll  and  tax  list ;  Provided,  That  all  taxes 
for  State  purposes  may  be  computed  as  a  whole  and  entered 
in  one  column.  The  State  Examiner  is  hereby  authorized  and 
directed  to  prescribe  the  form  of  such  combined  assessment 
roll  and  tax  list,  which  shall  be  uniform  as  to  general  require- 
ments in  all  counties  of  the  State.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2343.] 

Tax  for  School  Purposes. 

Sec.  263.  The  County  Commissioners  shall,  at  the  time 
of  levying  tax  for  county  purposes,  cause  to  be  levied  a  tax 
for  the  support  of  schools  within  the  county  as  provided  by 
law,  which  shall  be  collected  by  the  County  Collector,  at  the 
same  time,  and  in  the  same  manner  as  State  and  county  taxes 
are  collected,  with  the  exception  that  it  shall  be  receivable  in 
cash  or  warrants  of  the  school  district.  The  County  Treasurer 
shall,  at  all  times,  hold  subject  to  the  draft  of  the  proper  offi- 
cers, all  moneys  belonging  to  teachers'  or  school  house  fund. 
[C.  'S.  1910,  Sec.  2401.] 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING  81 

Assessments — When  Made. 

'Sec.  264.  Whenever  a  sum  of  money  has  been  voted  by 
a  school  district,  as  'by  law  provided!,  the  clerk  shall,  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Directors,  make  out  and  certify  over  his 
official  signature,  the  amount  of  money  voted  in  his  district, 
and  on  or  before  the  fourth  Monday  in  May  of  each  year  cause 
the  same  to  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  Board  of 
County  Commissioners;  the  clerk  shall  also  at  the  same  time 
notify  the  District  Assessor  of  the  assessment  district  in  which 
said  school  district  is  situated,  in  writing,  of  the  action  of  the 
district.  Said  District  Assessor  shall  at  the  time  of  making  the 
annual  assessment  of  his  district  also  assess  the  property  of 
each  school  district,  from  which  he  has  received  notification 
as  aforesaid,  and  return  to  the  supervising  assessor  at  the  time 
of  returning  the  assessment  schedules,  separate  schedules  list- 
ing the  property  of  each  school  district  by  him  assessed.  Said 
separate  schedule  shall  be  by  the  Supervising  Assessor,  com- 
piled, footed  and  returned  to  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners as  hereinbefore  provided  for  other  assessment  schedules. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2402.  J 

Equalization  of  Assessment  and  Levy  of  Taxes. 

Sec.  265.  The  Bcxard  of  County  Commissioners  of  each 
county  shall  have  the  power  and  it  is  made  their  duty  to 
equalize  the  assessment  and  valuation  of  the  taxable  property 
of  all  the  several  school  districts  in  the  county  which  is  assess- 
able by  the  County  Assessor,  and  shall  also  have  power  to  add 
to  such  assessment  any  taxable  property  in  such  school  district 
not  included  in  the  assessments  as  returned  by  the  assessor, 
and  which  it  was  his  duty  to  assess  in  the  same  manner  as  is  or 
hereafter  may  be  provided  by  law  for  county  and  State  pur- 
poses, and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  County  Com- 
missioners when  making  the  annual  levy  for  taxes,  to  levy 
upon  the  taxable  property  of  each  school  district  a  tax  suffi- 
cient to  raise  the  amount  of  money  voted  in  the  district  for 
the  year,  which  levy  shall  also  be  made  upon  the  assessed  valua- 
tion of  railroad  and  telegraph  property  in  such  school  dis- 
trict as  assessed  by  the  State  Board  of  Equalization.  And  the 
county  clerk  in  making  out  the  annual  tax  list  shall  carry  out 
in  a  separate  column  the  amount  of  the  district  school  tax 
in  the  same  manner  as  other  taxes.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2403.] 

Manner  of  Collecting  Taxes. 

Sec.  266.  The  taxes  and  assessments  of  all  school  dis- 
tricts for  all  purposes,  except  as  otherwise  specially  provided 
by  law  shall  be  collected  like  county  taxes  and  all  delinquent 
taxes  shall  be  returned  by  the  collector  in  the  same  manner 
as  other  delinquent  taxes  are  required  by  law  to  be  returned. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2404.] 


82  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

To  Whom  School  Moneys  Paid. 

Sec.  267.  The  amount  of  tax  collected  by  the  County 
Collector  shall  be  paid  over  to  the  County  Treasurer  like  other 
taxes,  and  shall  be  held  by  said  County  Treasurer  subject  to 
the  draft  of  the  County  Superintendent,  and  shall  be  paid  over 
accordingly;  Provided,  That  the  money  collected  on  the  dis- 
trict tax  rolls  shall  be  paid  by  the  Collector  directly  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  proper  district,  and  his  receipt  taken  therefor. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2405.] 


POLL  TAXES. 

Land  Income  Funds  Available — When. 

Sec.  268.  On  the  15th  day  of  January,  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety-nine,  and  on  the  15th  day  of  January  of  each  second 
year  thereafter,  any  and  all  moneys  which  shall  be  in  either  of 
the  following  land'  income  funds  shall  become  available,  and 
may  be  used  for  the  following  purposes,  respectively : 

First — The  ' '  deaf,  dumb  and  blind  land  income  fund ' ',  for 
the  support,  maintenance  and  education  of  all  such  deaf,  dumb 
and  blind  persons  as  are  or  may  hereiaifter  become  charges 
upon  the  State. 

Second — The  "insane  asylum  land  income  fund",  for  the 
support  and  maintenance  of  the  State  Insane  Aslyum  and  the 
inmates  thereof. 

Third — The  "fish  hatchery  land  income  fund",  for  the 
support  and  maintenance  of  the  State  fish  hatchery  in  Albany 
county. 

Fund  Appropriated. 

Sec.  269.  The  sum  of  sixteen  thousand  seven  hundred 
thirty-five  dollars  and  ninety-five  cents  now  to  the  credit  of  the 
penitentiary  in  Albany  County  Land  Income  Fund,  together 
with  any  further  amounts  which  may  accrue  thereto,  is  hereby 
appropriated  for  the  payment  of  expenses  heretofore  or  here- 
after accruing  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  the  State 
penitentiary  located1  in  Carbon  county,  and  the  care  and  sub- 
sistence of  the  convicts  therein. 

Fifth — The  "university  land  income  fund",  for  the  sup- 
port and  maintenance  of  the  State  University  at  Laramie,  the 
same  to  be  paid  by  the  State  Treasurer  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  State  University  upon  the  warrant  of 
the  State  Auditor  to  be  issued  upon  request  of  s'aid  Board  of 
Trustees. 

Sixth — The  "State  charitable,  educational,  penal  and  re- 
formatory institutions  land  income  fund",  for  the  custody, 
support  and  maintenance  of  State  convicts  and  persons  con- 


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fined!  at  the  expense  of  the  State  in  reformatory  institutions 
within  or  without  the  State. 

Seventh — The  "penal,  reformatory  or  educational  insti- 
tution in  Carbon  county  land  income  fund",  for  and  toward 
the  completion,  furnishing  and  maintenance  of  the  peniten- 
tiary at  Rawlins,  in  Carbon  county. 

Eighth — The  "miners'  hospital  land  income  fund",  for  the 
support  and  maintenance  of  the  Wyoming  General  Hospital,  at 
Rock  Springs. 

Ninth — The  "public  building  at  the  capital  land  income 
fund",  for  the  care,  repair,  maintenance  and  furnishing  of  the 
capitol  building". 

Tenth — The  "poor  farm  in  Fremont  county  land  income 
fund",  for  the  care,  repair,  maintenance  and1  improvement  of 
the  poor  farm  in  Fremont  county. 

On  the  fifteenth  day  of  January,  nineteen  hundred  and 
one,  and  on  the  15th  day  of  January  of  each  second  year  there- 
after, it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Treasurer  to  make  a 
report  to  the  Governor  and  to  the  Senate  and  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, showing  the  amount  of  money  in  each  of  said  land 
income  funds  on  that  date.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2485.] 


TAXATION  AND  REVENUE. 

County  Commissioners'  Limit.     , 

Sec.  270.  The  power  of  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners of  each  of  the  several  counties  to  fix  rates  of  levy  an- 
nually by  means  of  which  to  create  a  fund  out  of  which  to  meet 
and  defray  the  current  expenses  of  the  county  is  hereby  limited 
as  follows:  [L.  1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  2.] 

Assessed  Valuation  Limit. 

Sec.  271.  In  any  county  which  has  an  assessed  valuation 
for  the  current  tax  year  of  four  millions  of  dollars  or  less,  the 
levy  shall  not  exceed  seven  mills  on  the  dollar  of  such  valua- 
tion; and  in  any  county  which  has  lam  assessed  valuation  for 
the  current  tax  year  of  five  millions  of  dollars  and  not  less  than 
four  millions  of  dollars  the  levy  shall  not  exceed  six  and  one- 
half  mills  on  the  'dollar  of  such  valuation.  [L.  1911,  Chap.  106, 
Sec.  3.] 

Method  of  Estimating. 

Sec.  272.  In  any  county  which  has  an  assessed  valuation 
for  the  -current  tax  year  of  more  than  five  million  dollars  and 
not  in  excess  of  twenty  million  dollars,  the  maximum,  levy  shall 
be  determined  by  reducing  the  levy  of  six  and  one-half  mills 
allowed  upon  a  valuation  of  five  million  dollars  one-tenth  of 


84  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

one  mill  for  each  one  million  dollars  in  excess  of  five  million 
dollars,  and  any  rate  of  levy  so  determined  shall  be  the  maxi- 
mum rate  of  levy  for  all  assessed1  valuations  which  are  frac- 
tions of  the  next  higher  one  million  dollars  of  valuation.  [L. 
1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  4.] 

The  Same. 

Sec.  273.  In  any  county  which  has  an  assessed  valuation 
for  the  current  tax  year  of  more  than  twenty  million  dollars, 
the  miaximum  levy  shall  be  determined  by  reducing  the  levy  of 
four  and  one-half  mills  allowed  upon  a  valuation  of  twenty 
million  dollars  one  one-hundredth  of  one  mill  for  each  one 
million  dollars  in  excess  of  twenty  million  dollars,  and  any  rate 
of  levy  so  determined1  shall  be  the  maximum  rate  of  levy  for  all 
assessed  valuations  which  are  fractions  of  the  next  higher  one 
million  dollars  of  valuation.  [L.  1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  5.] 

Detail  Illustration. 

Sec.  274.  The  limitations  of  the  county  current  expense 
tax  levies  as  prescribed  and  fixed  in  sections  three,  four,  five 
and  six  of  this  act  are  illustrated  in  detail,  as  follows : 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuation  less  than  $6,000,000  shall 
•be  6.5  mills. 

The  maximum  lew  for  valuations  of  $6,000,000  and  less 
than  $7,000,000  shall  'be  6.4  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $7,000,000  and  less 
than  $8,000,000  shall  be  6.3  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  \aluations  of  $8,000,000  and  less 
than  $9,000,000  shall  be  6.2  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $9,000,000  and  less 
than  $10,000,000  shall  be  6.1  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $10,000,000  and  less 
than  $11,000,000  shall  be  6  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $11,000,000  and  less 
than  $12,000,000  shall  be  5.9  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $12,000,000  and  less 
than  $13,000,000  shall  Tbe  5.8  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $13,000,000  and  less 
than  $14,000,000  shall  be  5.7  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $14,000,000  and  less 
than  $15,000,000  shall  be  5.6  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $15,000,000  and  less 
than  $16,000,000  shall  be  5.5  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $16,000,000  and  less 
than  $17,000,000  shall  be  5.4  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $17,000,000  and  less 
than  $18,000,000  shall  be  5.3  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $18,000,000  and  less 
than  $19,000,000  shall  'be  5.2  mills. 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  85 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $19,000,000  and  less 
than  $20,000,000  shall  be  5.1  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $20,000,000  and  less 
than  $21,000,000  shall  be  4.50  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $21,000,000  land  less 
than  $22,000,000  shall  be  4.49  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $22,000,000  and  less 
than  $23,000,000  shall  be  4.48  mills'. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $23,000,000  and  less 
than  $24,000,000  shall  be  4.47  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $24,000,000  and  less 
than  $25,000,000  shall  be  4.46  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $25,000,000  and  less 
than  $26,000,000  shall  be  4.45  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $26,000,000  and  less 
than  $27,000,000  shall  be  4.44  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $27,000,000  and  less 
than  $28,000,000  shall  be  4.43  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $28,000,000  and  less 
than  $29,000,000  shall  be  4.42  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $29,000,000  and  less 
than  $30,000,000  shall  be  4.41  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $30,000,000  land  less 
than  $31,000,000  shall  be  4.40  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $31,000,000  and  less 
than  $32,000,000  shall  be  4.39  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $32,000,000  and  less 
than  $33,000,000  shall  be  4.38  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $33,000,000  and  less 
than  $34,000,000  shall  be  4.37  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $34,000,000  and  less 
than  $35,000,000  shall  be  4.36  mills. 

The  maximum  levy  for  valuations  of  $35,000,000  and  less 
than  $36,000,000  shall  be  4.35  mills. 

Provided,  That  if  in  any  county  it  shall  be  shown  by  the 
Botard  of  County  Commissioners  of  such  county  that  the  levy 
authorized  by  this  act  would  not  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  cur- 
rent expenses  of  such  county,  or  to  liquidate  its  floating  indebt- 
edness, the  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  such  county  may 
apply  to  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  for  authority  to  make 
a  larger  levy  for  the  current  year  and  such  Board  of  Equaliza- 
tion shall  give  such  authority.  This  proviso  shall  apply  to 
the  years  1911,  1912  and  1913  only.  Provided,  always,  That  the 
Board  of  County  Commissioners  in  each  and  every  county  of 
this  State  shall  not  expend  in  any  one  year,  out  of  the  revenue 
raised  for  county  current  expenses,  a  sum  amounting  to  more 
than  one-fifth  of  such  revenue  for  the  support  of  the  poor  and 
lunatic  asylums,  and  shall  not  expend  for  road  and  bridge 


86  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

purposes  in  any  one  year  a  sum  amounting  to  more  than  one- 
half  of  the  revenue  raised  for  said!  county  current  expenses; 
and  provided,  further,  that  the  qualified  electors  of  any  county 
may,  !by  direct  vote  at  any  general  or  special  election  held  as 
provided  by  law  in  such  county,  authorize  for  one  year  an 
increase,  not  exceeding  two  mills  on  the  dollar  valuation,  in 
the  levy  for  county  current  expenses,  over  and  above  the  maxi- 
mum levy  for  such  purpose  in  this  act  provided,  and  if  so 
authorized  then  the  County  Board!  may  make  such  increased 
levy  for  the  year  voted  upon,  and  thereafter  the  limitation  of 
this  act  shall  apply  unless  an  increased  levy  for  a  particular 
year  shall  be  voted  at  another  election  in  like  manner.  [L. 
1911,  Chap.  106,  'Sec.  6.] 

County  Library  Tax  Limit  as  Amended  by  S.  L.  1915. 

Sec.  275.  The  authority  of  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners of  each  county  to  levy  annually  a  county  library  tax,  is 
hereby  limited  so  that  the  Board  shall  not  levy  in  excess  of 
one-half  of  one  mill  on  the  dollar  upon  all  taxable  property  in 
the  county.  [L.  1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  8.] 

School  District  Limit. 

Sec.  276.  The  authority  of  the  qualified  electors  of  any 
school  district  at  the  annual  meeting,  to  vote  a  tax  for  school 
purposes,  is  hereby  limited  to  the  extent  that  no  tax  shall  be 
voted  for  such  purposes  which  shall  be  in  excess1  of  three  and 
one-half  mills  upon  the  dollar  of  all  the  taxable  property  of 
any  such  school  district.  Provided,  That  in  no  event  shall  any 
school  district  levy  any  greater  tax  than  is  reasonably  neces- 
sary for  the  ensuing  school  year;  and  provided,  further,  that 
the  question  of  an  increased  levy  above  the  limitation  herein- 
before specified  may  be  submitted  by  the  District  Board  of  any 
school  district  to  the  electors  of  the  district  at  the  annual 
meeting  or  election,  and  if  so  submitted  due  notice  thereof  shall 
be  given  for  at  least  thirty  days  in  'advance  of  such  election 
or  meeting  by  posting  written  or  printed  notices  upon  the 
front  door  of  each  and  every  school  house  in  the  district,  in  at 
least  three  additional  public  places  in  the  district,  and!  said 
notice  shall  state  the  proposed  increase  in  the  levy,  which 
increase  shall  not  in  any  ease  amount  to  more  than  five  mills 
on  the  dollar  valuation  of  all  the  taxable  property  of  the  dis- 
trict, making  the  aggregate  levy  not  to  exceed  eight  and  one- 
half  mills.  If  fifty-one  per  cent  of  the  votes  cast  at  such  elec- 
tion or  meeting  shall  be  in  favor  of  the  increased  levy,  as 
named  in  said  election  notice,  then  the  officers  charged  with 
levying  taxes  may  make  such  increased  levy  for  the  year  voted 
upon,  and'  thereafter,  the  limitation  of  this  act  shall  apply, 
unless  an  increased  levy  for  ia  particular  year  shall  be  voted  at 
another  election  in  like  manner;  and  in  all  cases  where  an 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  87 

increased  levy  is  voted  the  school  district  clerk  shall  forward 
to  the  county  clerk  and  the  County  Superintendent,  with  his 
certificate  of  the  school  district  levy,  his  affidavit  showing  that 
all  of  the  notices  herein  required  to*  be  posted  were  in  fact 
duly  posted  at  least  thirty  days  in  advance  of  the  election,  and 
shall  also  forward  a  report  showing  the  number  of  votes  cast 
for  and  against  the  proposition  for  an  increased  levy.  [L.  1911, 
Chap.  106,  Sec.  9.] 

Bonded  Debt. 

Sec.  277.  This  act  shall  in  no  way  limit  the  amount  of  any 
levy  necessary  to  be  made  for  the  purpose  of  paying  any 
bonded  debt,  judgment  or  the  interest  thereon,  against  any 
county,  city,  town  or  school  district.  [L.  1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec. 
10.] 

Excess  Levy  Unlawful — Duty  of  Assessor. 

Sec.  278.  Any  levy  which  may  be  certified1  to  the  county 
clerk  in  excess  of  the  limitations  fixed  by  this  act  shall  be  un- 
lawful, and  in  any  such  case,  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  county 
clerk  or  county  assessor  of  any  county  within  the  'State  to 
enter  upon  the  tax  roll  of  the  county  any  such  excessive  levy ; 
and  in  case  of  any  such  excess  in  any  levy  it  is  hereby  made 
the  duty  of  the  County  Assessor  to  reduce  such  levy  and  to 
extend  upon  the  tax  roll  only  such  part  thereof  as  will  comply 
with  the  provisions  of  this  act.  [L.  1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  11.] 

Misdemeanor. 

Sec.  279.  Any  member  of  any  Board,  or  any  other  officer 
who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be 
fined  in  any  sum  not  less  than  one  hundred  dollars  or  more 
than  five  hundred  dollars  and  shall  also  be  subject  to  removal 
from  office  'by  a  civil  action  prosecuted  by  any  tax  payer.  [L. 
1911,  Chap.  106,  Sec.  12.] 


DEPOSIT  OF  PUBLIC  MONEY. 

Officers  Deposit  Monthly. 

Sec.  280.  Every  State  officer,  employee,  department,  or 
commission  receiving  money,  for  or  on  behalf  of  the  State, 
from  any  source,  shall  on  or  before  the  first  Monday  of  each 
month  pay  to  the  State  Treasurer  all  such  money,  received  dur- 
ing the  preceding  month,  and  on  the  same  date  shall  file  a 
detailed  verified  statement  of  such  receipts  with  the  'State  Audi- 
tor and  a  true  copy  thereof  Avith  the  State  Examiner.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2486.] 


88  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

State  Board  of  Deposits. 

'Sec.  281.  There  is  hereby  created  a  Board  of  Deposits 
consisting  of  the  Governor,  State  Treasurer  and1  Secretary  of 
State,  and  said  officers  are  hereby  required  to  perform  the 
duties  herein  prescribed,  as  members  of  said  Board  of  Deposits, 
without  any  extra  or  additional  compensation.  The  Governor 
of  the  State  shall  be  chairman  of  said  Board,  and  the  State 
Treasurer,  secretary  thereof.  The  records  of  said  Board  kept 
by  said  secretary,  or  a  daily  certified  copy  thereof,  shall  be 
prima  facie  evidence  of  the  matter  appearing  therein  in  any 
court  in  the  United  States.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Board 
of  deposits  to  meet  on  the  first  Monday  of  April  of  each  year, 
or  at  any  other  time,  upon  the  call  of  the  chairman,  and  desig- 
nate such  banks  within  this  State,  as  it  may,  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter,  deem  eligible  to  be  made  State  deposi- 
tories for  the  purpose  of  receiving  on  deposit  funds  of  this 
State.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2487.] 

Designation  of  Depositories. 

Sec.  282.  All  banks,  applying  to  be  miade  State  deposi- 
tories under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  shall,  on  or  before 
the  first  Monday  in  April  of  each  year,  file  their  application,  in 
writing,  with  the  secretary  of  the  said  Board  of  Depostis,  said 
application  to  be  accompanied  by  a  sworn  statement  of  the 
financial  condition  of  said  bank  at  the  time  the  application  is 
made.  The  Board  of  Deposits  at  its  meeting  shall  pass  upon 
all  .applications  made  in  compliance  with  this  chapter,  and 
shall,  over  the  signatures  of  the  members  of  said  Board,  or  a 
majority  thereof,  endorse  on  said  application  their  approval  or 
rejection.  Any  and  all  banks  whose  applications  may  be  en- 
dorsed with  the  approval  of  the  Board  as  aforesaid,  shall  be 
deemed  eligible  to  be  made  State  depositories  under  the  provi- 
sions of  this  chapter.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2488.] 

Deposits  by  Treasurer. 

Sec.  283.  The  State  Treasurer  may  deposit  any  portion 
of  the  public  moneys  in  his  possession  in  such  national  banks 
within  this  State,  or  in  any  State  banks  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  and  doing  business  in  this  State,  as  shall  have  been 
approved  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  by  the  Board 
of  Deposits  as  herein  provided;  but  the  said  treasurer  shall 
not  have  on  deposit  in  any  bank  of  public  funds  more  than 
one-half  of  its  paid  in  and  unimpaired  capital  stock  and  sur- 
plus at  any  one  time.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2489.] 

Interest  and  Security. 

Sec.  284.  For  the  security  of  funds  so  deposited  under 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  the  State  Treasurer  shall  require 
all  such  depositories  to  deposit  securities  of  the  kind  and  char- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  89 

acter  hereinafter  described,  or  to  give  bonds  in  some  respon- 
sible surety  company,  authorized  to  do  business  in  this  State, 
for  the  payment  of  such  deposits  and  interest  thereon.  Said 
'bonds,  when  given,  shall  run  to  the  State  of  Wyoming,  and, 
together  with  the  securities  offered  shall  be  approved  by  the 
said  Board  of  Deposits.  Said  bonds  shall  be  conditioned,  that 
the  depositories  shall  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  each  month 
render  to  the  State  Treasurer,  and  State  Auditor,  a  statement 
in  duplicate,  showing  the  daily  balance  of  State  funds,  and  the 
amount  of  money  of  the  State  held  by  it  during  the  month 
preceding,  and  the  amount  of  the  interest  accrued  thereon, 
and  for  the  payment  of  the  said  deposit  and  the  interest  there- 
on, as  herein  provided,  when  demanded  by  the  State  Treasurer, 
or  his  authorized  deputy  on  his  check,  order  or  demand  at  any 
time,  and  generally  to  do  and  perform  whatever  may  be  re- 
quired by  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  for  a  faithful  discharge 
of  the  trust  reposed  in  such  depository.  Said  bonds  shall  con- 
tain the  further  obligation  to  settle  with  and  pay  to  the  State 
Treasurer,  for  the  use  of  this  State,  interest  upon  daily  balances 
on  said  deposits,  at  the  rate  fixed  by  said  Board  of  Deposits, 
payable  quarterly,  on  the  first  Monday  in  January  >  April,  July 
and  October  in  each  year,  or  at  any  time  when  the  account 
may  be  closed.  Said  bonds  shall  be  in  substance  as  follows : 

Know  All  Men  'by  These  Present :   That  we, , 

as  principal,  and. ,  as  surety,  are  held  and  firmly 

bound  unto  the  State  of  Wyoming  in  the  just  and  full  sum 

of dollars,  for  the  payment  of  which,  well  and 

truly  to  be  made,  we  bind  ourselves,  and  our  successors  and 
assigns,  jointly  and  severally  by  these  presents. 
.     Dated  this day  of ,  A.  D 

The  condition  of  the  foregoing  is  such  that,  Whereas,  the 
said  bank,  in  consideration  of  the  deposit  of  certain  moneys  of 

the  State  of  Wyoming  for  safe  keeping  IIL. bank 

of ,  the  amount  whereof  shall  be  subject  to  with- 
drawal or  diminution  by  the  State  Treasurer  of  said  State  as 
the  requirements  of  the  said  State  shall  demand,  and  which 
amount  may  be  increased  or  decreased  as  the  said  Treasurer 
may  determine,  and,  Whereas,  The  said  foank,  in  consideration 
of  said  deposits,  and  for  the  privilege  of  keeping  the  same, 
has  agreed  to  pay  and  will  pay  to  the  State  of  Wyoming  inter- 
est on  account  of  said  deposit  at  the  rate  fixed  by  the  Board 
of  Deposits  of  the  said  State,  to- wit:  Interest  at  the  rate  of 

per  centum  per  annum,  the  same  to  be  paid  quarterly 

on  the  first  days  of  January,  April,  July  and  October  in  each 
year  upon  the  daily  average  balance  of  the  deposit  of  State 
funds  in  the  said  bank,  for  the  quarter  or  any  fraction  thereof 
next  preceding  the  payment  of  said  per  centum,  which  shall  be 


90  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

computed]  and  credited  to  the  account  of  the  State,  and  shall 
become  a  part  thereof. 

Now,  Therefore,  If  the  said bank  of 

shall  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of  each  month  render  to  the 
State  Treasurer  and  State  Auditor  of  said  State  a  statement  in 
duplicate,  showing  the  daily  balance  of  the  State  moneys  held 
by  it  during  the  month  next  preceding,  and  the  interest  there- 
on, subject  at  all  times  to  the  check,  order  or  demand  of  the 
State  Treasurer,  or  his  authorized  deputy,  •  as  aforesaid,  and 
shall  pay  over  the  same,  and  any  part  thereof,  upon  the  check, 
order  or  demand  of  the  State  Treasurer,  or  his  authorized 
deputy,  and  shall  calculate,  credit  and  pay  said  interest  as 
aforesaid,  in  the  amount  and  manner  aforesaid,  and  shall  in 
all  respects  save  and  keep  the  State  of  Wyoming  aii'di  the  State 
Treasurer,  or  his  successor  in  office,  safe  and  harmless  for  and 
by  reason  of  the  making  of  said  deposit,  or  deposits,  then  this 
obligation  shall  be  void  and  of  no  effect,  otherwise  to  be  and 
to  remain  in  full  force  and  virtue. 

It  being  the  further  condition  of  the  above,  however,  that 
said  surety  shall  have  the  right  to  terminate  its  obligation  here- 
under  upon  giving  notice  in  writing  to  the  Governor  and  State 
Treasurer  of  said  State  of  its  election  so  to  do,  and'  such  term- 
ination shall  take  effect  at  the  expiration  of  thirty  days  from 
receipt  of  said  notice  by  said  Governor  and  State  Treasurer. 

Witness1  our  hands  and  seals,  the  day  and  year  first  above 
written. 

(Seal) 

(Seal) 

In  addition  to  the  other  limitations  herein  provided,  the 
said  Treasurer  shall  not  have  on  deposit  in  any  bank,  at  any 
time,  more  than  ninety  per  cent  of  the  amount  of  the  bond 
given  by  said  bank,  and  the  bonds  shall  be  deposited  with  and 
held  by  the  State  Treasurer.  [S.  L.  1907,  Chap.  30,  Sec.  5 ;  C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2490.]  * 

Collateral  Security. 

Sec.  285.  Any  such  depository  may,  instead  of  such  bond 
in  an  approved  surety  company,  furnish,  :a,s  security  for  such 
deposit,  or  deposits,  United  States  government  bonds,  or  State 
bonds  of  this  State,  county,  city  or  school  district  bonds  or 
warrants  issued  by  virtue  of  the  laws  of  this  State,  worth  not 
less  than  their  par  value,  and  in  an  amount  equal,  at  least,  to 
the  maximum  amount  of  money  at  any  time  toi  be  deposited 
with  such  bank ;  Provided,  however,  That  for  temporary  depos- 
its in  excess  of  the  amount  for  which  such  bank  may  bond  ias 
provided  by  this  chapter,  such  depository  or  bank  may  deposit 
local  securities  having  an  appraised  value  of  at  least  tAventy- 
nve  per  cent  more  than  the  amount  of  such  temporary  depos- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  01 

its;  the  said  securities  to  be  approved  by  said  Hoard  of  Deposits 
and  to  be  accompanied  by  a  written  assignment  vesting  the 
legal  title  thereto  in  the  State  of  Wyoming,  as  collateral  secur- 
ity, that  such  depository,  so  depositing  and  assigning  said 
securities,  shall  and  will  safely  keep  and  pay  over  to  the  State 
Treasurer,  or  his  authorized  deputy,  on  his  check,  order  or 
demand,  all  money  which  may  come  into  the  possession  of  such 
depository,  tinder  andi  by  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  this  chap- 
ter, together  with  all  interest  accruing  thereon  as  herein  pro- 
vided, and  providing,  that  in  case  of  default  on  the  part  of 
such  depository,  the  said  State  shall  have  full  power  and  au- 
thority, to  sell,  in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided,  said  secur- 
ities or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be  necessary  to  realize  the 
full  amount  of  the  funds  of  the  State  so  deposited  in  said 
depository,  together  with  the  interest  thereon.  The  interest 
on  such  bonds,  so  deposited  and  furnished,  shall,  when  paid, 
be  turned  over  to  the  bank  so  depositing  the  same,  as  long 
as  it  is  not  in  default.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2491.] 

Annual  Interest  Rate. 

Sec.  286.  The  said  Board  of  Deposits  shall  annually,  on 
the  first  Monday  in  April  of  each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter 
as  possible,  taking  into  consideration  all  information  before  it, 
fix  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  on  the  deposits  herein  pro- 
vided for,  which  shall  not  be  less  than  two  per  centum  per 
annum,  nor  more  than  four  per  centum  per  annum,  and  which 
said  rate  shall  be  and  go  into  effect  on  the  first  day  of  May 
following,  and  which  rate  shall  not  be  changed  for  a  period  of 
one  year.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2492.] 

Daily  Balance  Computations. 

Sec.  287.  The  amount  to  'be  paid  by  any  and  all  banks, 
under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  for  interest  on  such  public 
funds  on  deposit,  shall  be  computed  on  the  average  daily  bal- 
ance of  public  moneys  kept  on  deposit  therewith,  and  shall 
be  paid  to  the  State  Treasurer  quarterly,  on  the  first  Monday  in 
January,  April,  July  and  October  of  each  year,  and  said  banks 
shall  quarterly,  on  the  first  Monday  of  January,  April,  July 
and  October  of  each  year,  render  a  statement  in  duplicate  to 
the  State  Treasurer  and  State  Auditor,  showing  the  amount  so 
paid.  The  State  Treasurer  shall  require,  and)  it  is  hereby  made 
the  duty  of  every  such  depository  to  keep  accurate  accounts 
of  all  moneys  deposited  with  it,  showing  the  amount  deposited 
and  when  deposited,  and  to  render  on  or  before  the  tenth  day 
of  each  and  every  month,  to  the  State  Treasurer  and  State 
Auditor  a  statement  in  diuplicate  showing  the  daily  balances 
of  the  State  moneys  held  by  it  during  the  month  next  preced- 
ing, and  the  interest  thereon ;  and  all  sums  paid  to  the  State  for 
interest  as  aforesaid  shall  be  credited  by  the  Treasurer  to  the 


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account  of  the  several  funds  from  which  it  was  derived.     [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2493.] 

Withdrawals. 

Sec.  288.  Nothing  in  this  chapter  shall  be  held1  to  prevent 
the  State  Treasurer  or  his  authorized  deputy  from  withdraw- 
ing any  and  .all  of  said  funds  so  deposited,  for  the  purpose  of 
paying  the  appropriations  and  obligations  of  the  State  and 
paying  the  same  out  as  lawfully  required,  nor  shall  anything 
in  this  chapter  prevent  the  State  Treasurer  or  his  authorized 
deputy  from  withdrawing  any  or  all  of  said  funds  so  deposited, 
whenever  he  deems  it  advisable  or  to  the  interests  of  the  State 
to  do  so.  The  State  Treasurer,  and  his  sureties,  shall  be  respon- 
sible for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  said  Treas- 
urer under  the  law,  and  for  a  proper  accounting  and  turning 
over  to  his  successor  of  all  moneys  paid  to  said  Treasurer  as 
such ;  but  he  shall  not  be  held  personally  liable  for  any  moneys 
that  may  be  lost  by  reason  of  the  failure  or  insolvency  of  any 
bank  selected  as  a  depository  under  the  provisions  of  this  chap- 
ter, nor  for  the  deficiency  or  loss  upon  any  bond,  or  securities 
deposited  by  any  bank,  if  the  said  bond  or  securities  so  de- 
posited have  been  approved  by  the  Board  of  Deposits;  Pro- 
vided, however,  That  if  such  loss  could  have  been  avoided  by 
the  exercise  of  reasonable  care  and  diligence  on  the  part  of 
said  Treasurer  or  his  deputy,  then  and  in  such)  case  the  said 
Treasurer  shall  be  liable  to  the  State  for  such  loss ;  but  nothing 
in  this  section  contained  shall  be  construed  as  relieving  from 
any  liability  any  bond  given  or  any  collateral  deposited  under 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter.  [G.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2494.] 

Funds  Not  Deposited. 

Sec.  289.  Whenever  any  State  funds  remain  on  hand 
which  cannot  be  placed -in  the  banks  of  this  State  under  the 
provisions  of  this  chapter,  then  the  State  Treasurer  shall  imme- 
diately notify  the  chairman  of  said  Board  of  Deposits,  which 
said  Board  shall  immediately  thereupon  hold  a  meeting,  and,  if 
possible,  secure  other  banks  in  the  State  to  hold  said  funds 
under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter.  During  the  time  that 
funds  cannot  be  deposited  in  the  banks  entitled  thereto  under 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  the  State  Treasurer  shall  hold 
said  funds  in  safe  keeping,  and  in  that  case  he  and  his  sureties 
on  his  bond  shall  'be  responsible  for  the  safe  keeping  of  such 
moneji  and  turning  the  same  over  to  his  successor.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2495.] 

Sale  of  Collateral. 

!Sec.  290.  The  State  Treasurer  is  hereby  authorized  and 
empowered  to  sell  any  or  'all  bonds  that  may  be  deposited  as 
collateral  security  for  the  deposit  of  any  State  fund  in  any 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  93 

depository  under  this  chapter,  at  a  public  or  private  sale,  when- 
ever there  shall  be  a  failure  or  refusal  upon  the  part  of  any 
bank,  as  :a  State  depository,  to  pay  over  the  funds,  or  any  part 
thereof,  upon  the  demand  or  order  of  the  State  Treasurer,  or 
his  authorized  deputy,  on  such  bank.  Notice  of  the  sale  of 
bonds  under  this  chapter  shall  be  given  by  publication  in  a 
newspaper  published  at  the  capital  of  Wyoming,  once  each 
week  for  five  consecutive  weeks,  and  when  a  stale  of  bonds  is 
made  by  the  said  State  Treasurer,  either  at  public  or  private 
sale  undter  this  chapter,  and  such  bonds  have  been  transferred 
by  the  chairman  and  secretary  of  the  said  Board  of  Deposits, 
the  absolute  ownership  of  such  bonds  shall  vest  in  the  purchaser 
or  purchasers,  upon  the  payment  of  the  purchase  money  to  th»e 
State  Treasurer.  Should  there  be  any  surplus  after  paying  the 
amount  due  the  !State  and  expenses  of  sale,  it  shall  be  paid  to 
the  bank  which  made  the  deposit  of  such  securities.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2496.] 

Recovery  on  Bonds. 

Sec.  291.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Attorney  General 
of  the  State  to  enter  and  prosecute,  in  the  name  of  the  State,  to 
final  determination,  all  suits  for  the  recovery  of  any  penalty 
arising  under  the  conditions  of  any  bond  given,  or  required 
to  be  given  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  to  the  State  of 
Wyoming.  [S.  L.  1909,  Ch.  30,  Sec.  12 ;  C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2497.] 

Investment  Permanent  Funds. 

Sec.  292.  Nothing  in  this  chapter  shall  be  construed  to 
prevent  the  proper  State  authorities  from  investing  as  provided 
by  law  any  of  the  permanent  funds  of  this  State.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2498.] 

County,  City  and  School  Funds. 

Sec.  293.  Under  this  chapter  the  term  "proper  govern- 
ing board"  shall  be  held  to  mean  when  applied  to  the  deposit 
of  county  funds  "the  Board!  of  County  Commissioners"  of  such 
county ;  when  applied  to  the  deposit  of  funds  of  a  city  or 
town,  the  mayor  and  council  or  the  mayor  and  trustees,  as 
the  case  may  be,  of  such  city  or  town,  :and  when  applied  to 
the  deposit  of  school  district  funds,  the  Board  of  Directors  or 
Trustees  of  such  school  district.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2499.] 

Deposits — City,  County,  Town  and  School  District  Treasurers. 

Sec.  294.  Every  County  Treasurer,  City  Treasurer,  town 
Trustees  and  Treasurer  of  a  school  district,  within  the  State  of 
Wyoming,  shall  deposit,  and  at  all  times  keep  on  deposit 
for  safe  keeping,  in  banks,  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
this  State  and  in  national  banks,  doing  business  in  his  county, 
when  designated  as  depositories  by  the  proper  governing 
board,  the  amount  of  moneys  in  his  hands  collected  and  held 


94  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

by  him  as  such  Treasurer.  Any  such  bank,  located  in  such 
county,  may  apply  for  the  privilege  of  keeping  such  moneys 
upon  the  following  conditions:  All  such  deposits  shall  be  sub- 
ject to  payment  when  demanded  by  the  proper  Treasurer  on 
his  check,  order  or  demand,  and  by  :all  banks,  receiving  and 
holding  such  deposits,  interest  shall  fee  paid  at  a  rate  not  less 
than  two  per  cent  per  annum  nor  more  than  four  per  cent  per 
annum,  as  may  be  determined  by  the  proper  governing  board 
upon  the  amount  so  deposited,  as  hereinafter  provided,  and 
subject  also  to  such  regulations  as  are  imposed  by  law.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2500.] 

Investment  of  Public  Funds  in  U.  S.  Bonds. 

•Sec.  295.  The  Board  of  County  Commissioners  of  any 
county,  the  City  or  Town  Council  of  any  city  or  town,  and  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  any  school  district  within  the  State,  may 
in  their  discretion  invest  in  the  bonds  of  the  United  States  or 
of  this  State,  any  surplus  fund  or  funds  not  required  for  the 
immediate  current  expenses  of  such  bodies,  and  may  in  their 
discretion  from  time  to  time  sell  and  dispose  of  such  bonds  as 
they  may  deem  expedient.  ['S.  L.  1919,  Chap.  80,  Sec.  1.] 

Depositories — Interest. 

Sec.  296.  Such  applications  by  such  banks,  shall  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  proper  governing  board  on  or  before  the  first 
Monday  of  April  of  each  year,  and  shall  be  acted  upon  by  the 
proper  governing  -board  on  the  said  first  Monday  of  April  of 
each  year,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  practicable,  and  said  Board 
shall  also  at  said  time  fix  the  rate  of  interest,  which  said  rate 
shall  go  into  effect  on  May  1st  following  and  shall  not  be 
changed  for  one  year,  and1  no  moneys  shall  be  deposited  by  any 
such  Treasurer 'except  in  such  banks  as  have  been  approved  by 
the  proper  governing  board.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2501.] 

How  Interest  Computed. 

Sec.  297.  The  amount  to  be  paid  by  any  and  all  banks 
under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  for  interest  on  public  funds 
on  deposit  shall  be  computed  on  the  average  daily  balance  of 
the  public  moneys  kept  on  deposit  therewith,  and  shall  be 
paid  and  credited  to  the  proper  county,  city,  town,  or  school 
district  on  the  first  day  of  January,  April,  July  and  October  of 
each  year;  and  every  such  bank  shall  keep  account  of  such 
public  moneys  as  may  be  deposited,  and  when  deposited,  and 
the  interest  thereon  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  make  a  statement 
thereof,  in  duplicate,  to  the  proper  treasurer,  and  the  proper 
governing  board,  on  the  first  Monday  of  January,  April,  July 
and  October  of  each  year  and  all  interest  paid  on  said  public 
moneys  shall  be  credited  by  the  proper  treasurer  to  the  ac- 
count of  the  several  funds  from  which  it  is  derived.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2502.] 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING  95 

Security  Required. 

Sec.  298.  For  the  security  of  the  funds  so  deposited  under 
the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  the  proper  treasurer  shall  require 
all  such  depositories  to  give  bonds  for  the  safe  keeping  and 
payment  of  such  'deposits  and  the  interest  thereon,  which 
bond  shall  run  to  the  proper  county,  city,  town  or  school  dis- 
trict, and  be  approved  by  the  proper  governing  board  of  such 
county,  city,  town  or  school  district,  and  conditioned  that  such 
depository"  shall,  on  the  first  Monday  of  each  January,  April, 
July  and  October  of  each  year,  render  to  the  proper  treasurer, 
and  the  proper  govening  'board  of  the  county,  city,  town  or 
school  district,  a  statement  in  'duplicate,  showing  the  several 
daily  balances,  arid  the  amount  of  public  moneys  held  by  it 
during  the  preceding  three  months,  and  the  amount  of  the 
interest  thereon,  and  how  credited,  and  for  the  payment  of  the 
said  deposits,  and  the  interest  accrued  thereon,  as  herein  pro- 
vided, and  when  demanded  by  the  proper  treasurer  on  his 
check,  order  or  demand  at  any  time,  and  generally  to  do  and 
perform  whatever  may  be  required  by  the  provisions  of  this 
chapter,  and  a  faithful  discharge  of  the  trust  reposed  in  such 
depository.  The  said  bond  in  substance  shall  be  similar,  or 
as  near  as  may  be,  to  the  bonds  required  of  State  depositories, 
and  when  the  penalty  thereof  exceeds  the  sum  of  five  thousand 
dollars,  such  bond  shall  be  furnished  by  some  responsible 
surety  company  authorized  to  do  'business  in  this  State.  No 
county,  municipal  or  school  district  treasurer  shall  have  on  de- 
posit in  any  bank  at  any  one  time  more  than  one-half  of  the 
penal  amount  named  in  its  said  bond  in  all  cases  where  private 
bonds  are  furnished,  nor  more  than  ninety  per  cent  of  the 
amount  of  all  other  bonds,  nor  more  than  one-half  of  the  paid 
up  capital  stock  and  unimpaired  capital  sto>ck  and  surplus  of 
such  bank.  The  'bonds  shall  be  deposited  with  the  clerk  of  the 
county,  city,  town  or  school  district  to  which  said  'bond  may 
be  given.  Where  there  are  no  banks  in  the  county,  or  where 
the  banks  in  the  proper  county  refuse  or  fail  to  bid  on  said 
money,  or  refuse  or  fail  to  receive  the  said  funds  undier  the  pro- 
visions of  this  chapter,  then  part  or  all  of  said  money  may 
be  deposited  under  the  conditions  of  this  act,  in  any  other  bank 
in  the  State,  selected  by  the  proper  governing  board  of  the 
county,  city,  town  or  school  district,  as  the  case  may  be.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2503.] 

Collateral  Security. 

Sec.  299.  Instead  of  the  bonds  provided  for  in  Section 
2503,  the  bank  or  banks  receiving  on  deposit  public  funds  may, 
as  security  therefor,  furnish  to  the  proper  treasurer  of  any 
county,  municipality  or  school  ddstrict,  securities  of  the  kind 
mentioned  in  Section  2491,  to  be  approved  by  the  proper  gov- 


96  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

erning  board  and  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  applicable  to 
such  securities  when  furnished  by  State  depositories,  shall  be 
applicable,  as  near  as  may  be,  to  such  securities  when  furnished 
to  the  treasurer  of  any  county,  municipality  or  school  district. 
[C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2504.] 

Funds  Not  Deposited. 

Sec.  300.  Whenever  funds  remain  on  hand  which  can- 
not be  placed  in  the  banks  of  the  respective  counties  of  this 
State  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  then  the  proper 
treasurer  shall  immediately  notify  the  chairman  of  the  proper 
governing  board,  which  said  board!  shall  immediately  there- 
upon hold  a  meeting  and,  if  possible,  secure  other  banks  in  the 
State  to  'hold  said  funds  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter. 
During  the  time  that  funds  cannot  be  deposited  in  the  banks 
entitled  thereto  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  the  proper 
treasurer  shall  hold  said  deposits  in  safe  keeping,  andl  shall  be 
liable  on  his  official  bond  for  such  funds  so  held.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  2505.] 

Treasurer's  Liability. 

Sec.  301.  No  county,  city,  town  or  school  district  treas- 
urer shall  be  liable  on  his  official  bond  for  money  on  deposit 
in  any  bank  under  and  by  direction  of  the  proper  legal  -au- 
thority and  in  conformity  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  if 
said  bank  has  given  bond  which  hias  been  approved  as  herein 
provided,  except  in  cases  where  any  loss  could  have  been  pre- 
vented by  the  exercise  of  reasonable  care  on  the  part  of  such 
treasurer.  Nothing  in  this  section  contained  shall  be  construed 
as  relieving  from  any  liability  any  bond  given  or  any  col- 
lateral deposited  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter.  Nor 
shall  anything  in  this  chapter  prevent  the  .proper  treasurer 
from  withdrawing  any  or  all  funds  'by  him  deposited  in  ac- 
cordance with  this  chapter,  whenever  he  deems  it  advisable  or 
to  the  interests  of  the  public  which  he  represents,  or  to  pay 
out  money  as  by  law  required.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2506.] 

Profit  Making  Prohibited. 

Sec.  302.  The  making  of  profit,  directly,  or  indirectly, 
by  any  State  Treasurer,  or  by  the  treasurer  of  any  county,  city, 
town  or  school  district,  or  by  any  other  public  officer  or  em- 
ployee having  in  his  custody  or  under  his  control  any  public 
moneys,  by  loaning  such  moneys  or  by  depositing  the  same 
contrary  to  the  provisions  of  this  chapter  or  the  using  of  such 
moneys  by  any  of  said  public  officers  or  employes  for  any  pur- 
pose not  authorized  by  law,  shall  be  deemed  a  felony  and  are 
hereby  prohibited,  and  any  of  said  public  officers  or  employees 
wiho  shall  violate  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions  of  this  sec- 
tion shall,  on  conviction,  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  97 

State  penitentiary  for  a  term  not  exceeding  two  years  or  by  a 
fine  not  exceeding  five  thousand  dollars,  or  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2507.] 

Bribes — Penalty. 

Sec.  303.  The  offering  or  giving,  directly  or  indirectly, 
by  any  person  to  any  public  officer  or  employee  having  in  his 
custody  or  under  his  control  any  public  moneys  of  any  gift, 
compensation,  reward  or  inducement  for  the  purpose  of  induc- 
ing any  such  public  officer  or  employee  to  deposit  such  public 
moneys  in  any  bank  or  to  use  the  same  in  any  manner  not 
authorized  by  law,  shall  be  deemed  a  felony  and  is  hereby 
prohibited,  and  any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions:  of 
this  section  shall,  on  conviction,  be  punished  by  imprisonment 
in  t'he  penitentiary  for  a  term  not  exceeding  two  years  or  by 
a  ,fine  not  exceeding  five  thousand  dollars,  or  by  both  such 
fine  and  imprisonment,  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2508.] 


PROTECTION  OF  BIRDS. 

Unlawful  to  Kill— Penalty. 

Sec.  304.  Any  person  who  shall,  within  the  State  of 
Wyoming,  kill  or  catch  or  have  in  his  or  her  possession,  living 
or  dead,  any  wild  bird  other  than  a  game  bird,  or  wiho  shall 
purchase,  offer  or  expose  for  sale  any  such  wild  'bird  after  it 
has  been  killed  or  caught,  shall  for  each  offense,  be  subject  to 
a  fine  of  not  more  than  five  dollars  for  each  such  bird  killed  or 
caught,  or  had  in  possession,  living  or  dead,  or  imprisonment 
for  not  more  tlhan  ten  days,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
court.  For  the  purposes  of  this  chapter  the  following  only 
shall  be  considered  game  birds:  The  Anatidae,  commonly 
known  as  swans,  geese,  brant  and  river  and  lake  ducks;  the- 
Rallidae,  commonly  known  as  rails,  coots  and  mud-hens;  the 
Limicolae,  commonly  known  as  shore-lbirds,  plovers,  snipe, 
sandpipers,  tatlers,  willets,  curlews,  godwits  and  avocets;  the 
Gallinaw,  commonly  known  as  grouse,  prairie  chickens,  pheas- 
ants, sage  hens,  partridges  and  quails.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2788.] 

Destruction  of  Eggs — Penalty. 

See.  305.  Any  person  who  shall,  within  the  State  of 
Wyoming,  take  or  needlessly  destroy  the  nest  or  the  eggs  of 
any  wild  bird,  or  shall  have  such  nest  or  eggs  in  his  or  her  pos- 
session, shall  be  subject  for  each  offense  to  a  fine  of  not  more 
than  five  dollars,  or  imprisonment  for  not  more  than  ten  days, 
or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the  court.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2789.] 

Scientific  Use  Permitted. 

Sec.  306.  Sections  2788  and  2789  shall  not  apply  to  any 
person  holding  a  certificate  giving  the  right  to  take  birds,  their 


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nests   and   eggs,   for   scientific   purposes,   as  provided  for   in 
Section  2791.     [C.  S.  1910,  'Sec.  2790.] 

Certificates— Bond. 

Sec.  307.  Certificates  may  be  granted  by  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction  to  'any  properly  accredited  person 
of  the  age  of  fifteen  years  or  upwards,  permitting  the  holder 
thereof  to  collect  birds,  their  nests  or  eggs,  for  strictly  scien- 
tific purposes  only.  No  such  certificate  shall  Ibe  issued  until 
the  applicant  therefor  shall  have  filed  with  the  said  Superin- 
tendent of  Pu'blic  Instruction  written  testimonials  from  two 
well  known  scientific  men  or  educators,  certifying  to  the  good 
character  and  fitness  of  said  applicant  to  be  entrusted  with 
such  privilege.  Said  applicant  must  file  with  said  persons  or 
officers  a  properly  executed  bond,  in  the  sum  of  two  hundred 
dollars,  signed  by  two  responsible  citizens  of  the  State  as  sure- 
ties. This  bond  shall  be  forfeited  to  the  State,  and  the  certifi- 
cate become  void,  upon  proof  that  the  holder  of  such  certificate 
has  killed  any  'birds,  or  taken  the -nest  or  eggs  of  any  bird, 
for  other  than  the  purposes  named'  in  Sections  2790  and  2791, 
and  shall  be  further  subject  for  each  offense  to  the  penalties 
provided  therefor  in  Sections  2788  and  2789.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
2791.] 

Term  of  Certificate. 

Sec.  308.  The  certificate  authorized  by  this  act  shall  be 
in  force  for  one  year  only  from  tlhe  date  of  its  issue,  and  shall 
not  be  transferable.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2792.] 

Birds  Not  Protected. 

Sec.  309.  The  following  named  birds  shall  be  exempt 
from  protection  under  the  provisions  of  this  chapter,  viz : 
English  sparrow,  magpie,  sharp-shinned  hawk,  Cooper's  hawk, 
goshawk,  duck  hawk,  gold  or  brown  eagle,  kingfisher  and 
blue \heron.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  2793.] 


BOARD  OF  HEALTH. 

Vaccination. 

Sec.  310.  The  State  Board  of  Health  may  adopt  such 
measures  for  the  general  vaccination  of  the  inhabitants  of  any 
city,  town,  or  county  in  the  State,  as  they  may  deem  proper 
and  necessary  to  prevent  the  introduction  or  arrest  the  prog- 
ress of  smallpox;  and  every  person  who  shall  refuse  to  be 
vaccinated,  or  prevent  any  person  under  his  care  and  control 
from  being  vaccinated,  or  wfho  shall  fail  to  present  himself 
or  herself  to  the  county  health  officer  or  a  practicing  physi- 
cian acting  under  the  direction  of  the  Board  or  county  health 
officer,  for  the  purpose  of  being  vaccinated,  if  such  physician 


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believes  vaccination  necessary,  shall  upon  conviction  be  fined 
not  more  fhan  one  hundred  dollars  nor  less  than  ten  dollars,  or 
imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  not  more  than  thirty  days.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  2740.] 


INTEREST  AND  USURY. 

When  Rate  Not  Effective. 

Sec.  311.  The  rate  of  interest  fixed  by  this  chapter  shall 
not  affect  interest  on  purchase  of  school,  university  and  agri- 
cultural lands,  or  on  lands  delinquent,  or  sold  for  the  non- 
payment of  taxes ;  or  the  rates  of  interest  on  warrants  issued 
by  the  proper  authorities  of  the  State,  county,  city,  town,  vil- 
lage or  other  municipal  subdivision,  or  any  bonds  issued  by 
any  county,  city,  town,  village  or  school  district,  but  they  and 
each  of  them  shall  draw  interest  and  be  payable  in  the  manner 
now,  or  that  may  hereafter  be  fixed  by  law.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
3364.] 

Interest  on  Public  Warrants. 

Sec.  312.  All  State,  county,  school  district,  town,  city 
or  other  public  warrants  issued  after  June  1st,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  ninety,  for  any  salary  or  salaries,  fee  or  fees,  or  for 
or  on  account  of  any  public  indebtedness,  claim  or  demand, 
whatever,  which  indebtedness,  claim  or  demand  shall  have 
accrued  on  any  public  contract,  transaction,  or  liability,  en- 
tered into  or  arising  after  the  1st  day  of  June,  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  ninety,  shall  draw  interest  upon  the  amount  ex- 
pressed in  such  warrant  or  warrants  at  the  rate  of  six  per 
centum  per  annum  from  the  date  of  the  presentation  thereof 
for  payment  at  the  treasury  or  other  place  where  the  same 
may  be  paya'ble,  until  there  is  money  in  the  treasury  for  the 
payment  thereof,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  to  allow  or  pay  any 
rate  of  interest  upon  such  warrant  or  warrants,  except  as 
herein  specified  and  expressed,  and  every  State  or  County 
Treasurer  or  municipal  officer  duly  authorized  to  act  as  treas- 
urer, to  whom  sudh  warrant  or  order  is  presented  for  payment, 
provided  he  has  not  sufficient  funds  in  the  treasury  to  pay  the 
same,  sjiall  endorse  thereon  the  words  "not  paid,  for  want  of 
funds",  and  sign  and  date  the  same  officially.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec. 
3365.] 


LEGAL  HOLIDAYS. 

Legal  Holidays. 

Sec.  313.  The  1st  day  of  January,  the  12th  day  of  Febru- 
ary, the  22nd  day  of  February,  the  30th  day  of  May,  the  4th  day 
of  July,  the  day  that  may  be  appointed  by  the  President  of  the 


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United  States  as  the  annual  Thanksgiving  day,  the  25th  day  of 
December  of  each  and  every  year,  all  days  upon  which  general 
elections  are  held  and  Arbor  day,  are  hereby  declared  legal 
holidays  in  and  for  the  State  of  Wyoming.  If  the  1st  day  of 
January,  the  12th  day  of  February,  the  22nd  day  of  February, 
the  30th  day  of  May,  the  4th  day  of  July  or  the  25th  day  of 
December,  fall  upon  a  'Sunday,  the  Monday  following  shall  be 
a  legal  holiday.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  3581.] 

NOTE — Labor  day  is  a  national  holiday. 

Arbor  Day. 

Sec.  314.  The  Governor  shall  annually,  in  the  spring, 
designate  by  official  proclamation,  an  arbor  day,  to  be  ob- 
served by  the  schools  and  for  economic  tree  planting.  [C.  S. 
1910,  Sec.  3582.] 


MISCELLANEOUS. 

Fulblic  Officer  Subject  to  Garnishment. 

Sec.  315.  The  salary  or  wages  due  any  State,  county,  city, 
town  or  school  district  officer  or  employee,  shall  be  liable  and 
subject  to  garnishment  in  civil  actions  in  the  same  manner  and 
for  the  same  causes  as  the  salary  or  wages  of  any  private 
individual  now  is,  or  may  (hereafter  be,  liable  and  subject  to 
garnishment  under  the  laws  of  this  State.  This  act  shall  apply 
to  the  salary  or  wages  due  to  any  officer  or  employee  of  the 
State,  or  of  any  county,  city,  town  or  school  district  of  the 
State,  whether  said  officer  or  employee  shall  have  been  elected 
or  shall  have  been  appointed  to  the  office  or  position  which  he 
holds.  [L.  1911,  Chap.  56.] 

Disposition  of  Fines. 

Sec.  316.  If  a  fine  be  imposed  and  paid  before  commit- 
ment, it  shall  be  received  by  the  Justice  and  by  him  paid  over  to 
the  County  Treasurer,  within  thirty  days  after  the  receipt 
thereof,  for  the  use  of  the  schools  in  the  county.  [C.  S.  1910, 
Sec.  6116.] 

Payment  of  Fine — Commitment. 

Sec.  317.  If  the  defendant  be  committed  for  not  paying 
a  fine,  he  may  pay  it  to  the  sheriff  of  the  county,  or  to  the 
Justice  by  whom  the  commitment  was  made,  but  to  no  other 
person;  wihio  must  in  like  manner,  within  thirty  days  after  the 
receipt  thereof,  pay  it  into  the  county  treasury  for  the  use  of 
the  schools  in  the  county.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  6117.] 


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CO-OPERATIVE  AGRICULTURAL  EXTENSION  WORK. 

Act  of  Congress  Accepted — Authority  of  University  Trustees. 

Sec.  318.  The  terms  and  conditions  of  an  act  of  Congress 
approved  by  the  President  May  8th,  1914,  entitled  "An  act  to 
provide  for  Co-operative  Agricultural  Extension  Work  between 
the  Agricultural  Colleges  in  the  several  states  receiving  the 
benefits  of  the  Act  of  Congress  approved  July  2nd,  1862,  and 
Acts  supplementary  thereto,  and  the  United  States  Department 
of  Agriculture",  are  hereby  assented  to  and  accepted  by  the 
State  of  Wyoming,  and  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University 
of  Wyoming  be  and  they  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 
to  receive  the  grants  of  money  appropriated  under  said  act, 
and  to  organize  and  conduct  agricultural  extension  work  which 
shall  be  carried  on  in  connection  witlh  the  college  of  agriculture 
of  said  university  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and  condi- 
tions expressed  in  the  Act  of  Congress  aforesaid.  [L.  1915, 
Chap.  25,  Sec.  1.] 

Appropriation. 

Sec.  319.  That  for  the  purpose  of  paying  the  expenses  of 
said  co-operative  agricultural  extension  work  or  other  agricul- 
tural extension  work,  and  the  necessary  printing  and  distribut- 
ing of  information  in  connection  with  tihe  same,  there  is  ap- 
propriated annually  out  of  the  money  in  the  State  treasury 
not  otherwise  appropriated  $8,000,  which  shall  be  paid  annually 
to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University  of 
Wyoming,  Provided  that  there  is  also  appropriated  an  addi- 
tional sum  of  $2,000.00  for  the  fiscal  year  following  tflnat  in 
which  the  foregoing  appropriation  first  becomes  available,  and 
for  each  year  thereafter  for  ten  years  a  sum  exceeding  by 
$1,000.00  the  sum  appropriated  for  each  preceding  year.  [L. 
1915,  Chap.  25,  Sec.  2.] 

Funds  for  County  Work — Agreement  with  Agricultural 
College. 

Sec.  320.  That  the  County  Commissioners  of  each  of  the 
several  counties  of  the  State  are  hereby  authorized  to  provide 
and  appropriate  funds  for  use  in  and  about  agricultural  or 
farm  demonstrations  and  field  work  in  such  county,  such  funds 
to  be  provided  either  by  special  provision  in  the  annual  tax 
levy,  not  exceeding  one-fourth  (y^)  mill,  of  such  county  or  by 
appropriation  of  funds  not  otherwise  appropriated,  and  the 
same  to  be  expended  su'bject  to  the  supervision  of  tlhie  Agricul- 
tural College  of  the  University  of  Wyoming ;  and  for  each  dollar 
so  provided  by  such  county  there  is  hereby  appropriated,  in 
addition  to  the  appropriation  provided  for  in  Section  2  of  this 
Act,  the  sum  of  two  dollars  to  be  paid  out  of  any  moneys  in  the 
general  fund  of  the  State  not  otherwise  appropriated  and  to 


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foe  available  when  the  Secretary  of  State  has  been  advised  by 
the  certificate  of  the  County  Commissioners  of  such  county, 
countersigned  by  the  President  of  the  State  University,  that 
such  provision  has  been  actually  made  and  that  memorandums 
of  agreement  have  'been  entered  into  between  said  county  and 
the  Agricultural  College  of  the  University  of  Wyoming,  said 
moneys  to  'be  turned  in  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  University ;  provided,  however,  that  in  no  event  shall 
the  total  amount  so  appropriated  to  any  one  county  exceed 
$3,000.00  during  any  one  year.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  25,  Sec.  3.] 

Districts. 

Sec.  321.  In  order  to  obtain  or  increase  the  benefits  to  be 
derived  from  the  provisions  of  this  act,  any  two  or  more  con- 
tiguous counties  may  unite  in  the  formation  of  a  district  and 
each  district  so  formed  shall  be  regarded,  for  the  purpose  of 
this  act,  as  :a  single  county  and  shall  be  entitled  to  the  same 
'benefits  under  this  act  as  if  such  districts  were  in  fact  one 
county;  provided,  however,  that  no  county  included  in  such 
district  as  a  county,  shall  be  entitled  to  any  of  the  benefits  of 
this  act  as  long  as  the  district  formed  as  aforesaid,  of  which 
county  is  a  part,  shall  receive  such  'benefits.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  25, 
Sec.  4.] 

Agricultural  Experts. 

Sec.  322.  When  the  County  Commissioners  of  any  county 
or  district,  composed  of  two  or  more  counties,  have  complied 
with  the  provisions  of  Section  3  of  this  act,  they  shall  make  a 
request  for  a  county  agent  or  agricultural  expert  to  be  sent 
them  by  the  Agricultural  College  of  the  University  of  Wyoming 
and  the  authorities  of  said  university  shall  provide  them  with 
a  suitable  man,  qualified  to  do  the  work  usually  expected  from 
a  man  educated  in  the  science  of  agriculture ;  provided,  an  un- 
satisfactory man  shall  not  be  continued  as  county  agent.  And 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Agricultural  College  of  the  Uni- 
versity to  carry  into  effect  the  provisions  of  conferring  with 
each  Board  of  County  Commissioners.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  25, 
Sec.  5.] 

Money  from  Other  Sources. 

Sec.  323.  That  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University  of 
Wyoming  is  authorized  to  receive  from  any  source  whenever 
and  wherever  the  same  may  be  available,  moneys  to  be  applied 
and  expended  under  the  supervision  of  said  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, in  aid  of  all  or  any  of  the  purposes  aforesaid  and  all  such 
sums  shall  be  and  are  here-by  deemed  to  be  appropriated  for 
the  purposes  aforesaid.  Any  and  all  sums  so  received  shall 
be  in  addition  to  any  other  benefits  to  be  derived  by  such 
coun,ty  hereunder,  and  shall  'be  paid  out  upon  requisition  as 


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provided  for  other  university  funds.     [L.  1915,  Chap.  25,  Sec. 
6.] 


POLL  TAXES. 

Levy  and  Collection. 

Sec.  324.  At  their  first  meeting  in  January  of  each  year, 
or  as  soon  thereafter  as  possible,  the  Boards  of  Commissioners 
in  each  and  every  county  in  the  State,  shall  annually  levy  a 
school  poll  tax  of  two  dollars  for  each  and  every  person  be- 
tween the  ages  of  twenty-one  years  and  fifty  years  inclusive, 
for  county  school  purposes,  which  poll  tax  shall  be  due  and 
payable  at  the  time  of  assessment ;  and  may  be  collected  by  the 
County  Assessors  at  any  timer  during  the  year,  and  it  shall 
be  lawful  for  the  Treasurer  or  Collector  to  levy  upon  any 
county  warrant  or  warrants,  or  other  evidences  of  indebted- 
*ness,  which  are  the  property  of  any  delinquent  taxpayer,  at 
any  time  .after  said  poll  tax  shall  have  become  due  and  pay- 
able, and  to  sell  and  dispose  of  the  same  to  the  best  advantage, 
and  apply  the  proceeds  thereof  to  the  payment  of  taxes  due 
from  said  delinquent,  giving  a  proper  receipt  therefor  to  said 
delinquent.  Provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
not  be  construed  to  apply  to  owners  of  real  estate  in  the  county 
where  school  poll  taxes  are  levied.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  1.] 

Receipts  Prepared  by  County  Treasurer. 

Sec.  325.  The  County  Treasurer  shall,  before  the  first  day 
of  March,  1915,  and  before  the  first  Monday  in  February  of 
each  year  thereafter,  cause  to  ;be  printed  'blank  stub  poll  tax 
receipts,  for  the  use  of  the  assessors  and  deputies.  The  style 
of  such  blanks  shall  be  changed  every  year.  The  County  Treas- 
urer shall,  before  the  first  day  of  March,  1915,  and  before  the 
first  Monday  in  February  of  each  year  thereafter; 

1.  Number  and  sign  the  blank  poll  tax  receipts. 

2.  At  the  time  of  signing  make  an  entry  of  the  wihole 
number  thereof,  and  of  the  first  and  last  number  placed  thereon, 
in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him  for  that  purpose. 

3.  Deliver  all  such  blanks  to  the  County  Clerk,  and  charge 
him  therewith.     [L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  2.] 

Duty  of  County  Clerk. 

Sec.  326.  The  County  Clerk,  upon  receipt  thereof,  shall 
sign  the  same,  and  make  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him  for  that 
purpose  a  similar  entry  to  that  prescribed  in  sub-division  2,  of 
the  preceding  section.  The  County  Clerk  shall,  at  any  time 
after  the  first  Monday  in  February,  deliver  to  the  Assessor  the 
blanks  and  charge  him  therewith.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  3.] 


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Duty  of  County  Assessor. 

Sec.  327.  The  Assessor  shall  demand  payment  of  poll  tax 
of  every  person  liable  therefor  whose  name  does  not  appear 
upon  the  assessment  list.  Poll  tax  shall  he  added  upon  the 
assessment  list  to  other  taxes  of  persons  liable  therefor,  paying 
taxes  upon  real  and  personal  property,  and  paid  to  the  County 
Treasurer  at  the  time  of  the  payment  of  other  taxes.  Every 
person  indebted  to  one  who  neglects  or  refuses,  after  demand, 
to  pay  a  poll  tax  becomes  liable  therefor,  and  must  pay  the 
same  for  such  other  person  or  persons,  after  service  upon  him 
by  the  Assessor  of  a  notice  in  writing,  stating  the  name  of  such 
person  or  persons.  Notice  to  a  corporation  shall  be  served  on 
the  person  on  whom  process  may  be  served,  as  in  civil  actions. 
[L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  4.] 

Employers  Liable. 

Sec.  328.  Every  person,  corporation  or  association  employ- 
ing one  or  more  persons  subject  to  poll  taxes  are  liable  for  any 
and  all  poll  taxes  that  may  be  due  from  such  employees,  and 
may  deduct  the  amount  paid  out  for  such  poll  taxes  from  any 
sum  due  to  the  extent  of  any  moneys  due  to  such  employees1  at 
the  time  when  served  with  notice  by  the  Assessor  as  provided  in 
Section  4  of  this  Act,  or  that  may  afterwards  become  due, 
for  such  employes,  whether  the  wages  are  payable  directly 
to  the  employees  or  other  persons  who  furnish  such  employees 
under  contract.  The  Assessor  may  require  the  person  or  his 
agent  or  any  officer  or  agent  or  manager  of  any  association 
to  make  a  verified  statement  showing  the  number  and  giving 
the  names  of  the  employees  of  such  person,  association  or  cor- 
poration. The  person,  association  or  corporation  refusing  to 
make  such  verified  statement  shall  forfeit  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  dollars  which  may  be  recovered  in  an  action  brought 
in  the  name  of  the  county.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  5.] 

Assessor  May  Seize  Property. 

Sec.  329.  The  Assessor,  in  case  of  the  failure  of  a  person, 
corporation  or  association  to  pay  the  poll  tax  in  the  manner 
mentioned  in  this  chapter,  shall  seize  so  much  of  the  property 
of  such  person,  association  or  corporation  as  will  be  sufficient 
to  pay  the  poll  tax  and  costs,  and  sell  the  same  as  provided 
in  Section  2419  of  Chapter  162,  Compiled  Statutes  of  Wyoming, 
1910.  Every  person  paying  the  poll  tax  of  another  may  deduct 
the  same  from  any  indebtedness  of  such  other  person.  The 
Assessor  shall  deliver  the  poll  tax  receipt,  filled  out  with  the 
name  of  the  person  owing  the  tax,  to  the  purchaser  of  property 
at  any  such  sale ;  in  other  cases  he  shall  deliver  it,  filled  out  in 
like  manner,  to  the  person  paying  the  tax.  The  receipt  so  de- 
livered is  the  only  evidence  of  payment.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  33, 
Sec.  6.] 


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Monthly  and  Final  Settlement  by  Assessor. 

Sec.  330.  On  the  first  Monday  in  each  month  the  Assessor 
shall  miake  oath  before  the  County  Clerk,  of  the  total  amount 
of  poll  taxes  collected  by  him  during  the  last  preceding  month, 
and  shall,  at  the  same  time,  settle  with  the  County  Clerk  for  the 
same,  and  pay  into  the  County  Treasurer's  office  the  total 
amount  of  poll  taxes  collected.  On  the  first  Monday  in  Jan- 
uary of  each  year  the  Assessor  shall  return  to  the  County  Clerk 
all  the  poll  tax  receipts  received  by  him  and  not  used,  together 
with  the  stubs  of  receipts  used,  and  shall  make  final  settlement 
with  the  County  Clerk  and  Treasurer  therefor.  The  County 
Clerk  shall,  as  soon  as  settlement  is  made,  return  to  the  Treas- 
urer the  receipts  not  used,  together  with  the  stubs  of  receipts 
used.  The  Treasurer  shall  credit  the  County  Clerk  with  the 
receipts  so  returned,  and  shall  thereupon  seal  them  up,  together 
with  the  stubs  of  receipts  used,  securely  and  deposit  them  in  his 
office.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  7.] 

Roll  of  Names— School  Fund. 

Sec.  331.  The  Assessor  shall  keep  a  roll  of  names  and  local 
residence,  or  place  of  business,  of  all  persons  subject  to  or  liable 
for  poll  tax,  and  if  paid,  date  and  amount  of  each  payment, 
and  if  not  paid,  the  cause  of  non-payment.  The  proceeds  of  the 
poll  tax  shall  be  paid  to  the  County  Treasurer,  as  provided  by 
law,  for  the  exclusive  use  of  the  school  fund  in  the  district  in 
which  said  poll  tax  is  collected.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  33,  Sec.  8.] 


GIFTS  FOR  EDUCATIONAL  PURPOSES. 

Charitable  Trust,  Exempt  from  Taxation. 

Sec.  332.  That  all  property  devised,  bequeathed  or  given 
for  non-sectarian,  public  educational  purposes  in  this  State,  or 
for  the  purpose  of  non-sectarian,  pu'blic  education  of  the  youths 
of  this  State  shall  be  considered  as  charitable  trusts,  and  the 
said  property,  so  long  as  the  same  is  not  diverted  from  the 
purposes  herein  expressed,  shall  be  exempt  from  taxation  in- 
cluding inheritance  taxation.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  34,  Sec.  1.] 

May  Incorporate. 

Sec.  333.  The  executors,  trustees  or  persons  receiving  such 
devise,  gifts  or  legacies  may  organize  'and  form  a  corporation 
under  the  provisions  of  and  to  be  governed  'by,  as  near  as  may 
'be,  Chapter  280  of  the  Wyoming  Compiled  Statutes  of  1910, 
and  the  provisions  of  this  act.  The  purposes  and  powers  of 
such  corporation  may  include  either  or  all  of  those  mentioned 
in  subdivision  fourth,  fifth  and  sixth  of  Section  4212  of  said 
Chapter  280  of  the  Wyoming  Compiled  Statutes  of  1910,  and 
the  further  purposes,  if  desired,  to  establish  and  maintain  a 


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school  or  schools  of  technology  or  other  similar  institutions, 
and  advance,  in  such  manner  as  may  be  found  advisable,  the 
education  of  the  youths  of  this  State.  An  amendment  to  the 
certificate  of  incorporation  may  be  made  from  time  to  time 
by  the  Trustees  or  Board  of  Directors,  changing-  the  number  of 
Trustees  (to  be,  however,  not  less  than  three),  or  by  adding 
thereto  such  of  the  powers  and  purposes  above  enumerated  as 
have  not  heretofore  been  included ;  such  amendment  shall  be 
executed  in  duplicate,  shall  be  duly  acknowledged  by  the 
president  and  secretary  of  such  corporation,  and  shall  be  filed 
in  the  same  manner  as  is  required  in  the  case  of  the  original 
certificate.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  34,  Sec.  2.] 

Powers  of  Executors,  Trustees  and  Corporations. 

Sec.  334.  Such  Executors,  Trustees  or  persons  receiving 
such  devises,  gifts  or  legacies,  and  the  corporations  formed  as 
above  mentioned,  shall  have  the  power  to  receive  gifts  and  do- 
nations of  real  and  personal  property  in  any  amount  and  value  ; 
to  sell  all  real  '.and  personal  property  coming  in  their  hands  and 
to  reinvest  the  same  in  and  hold  other  property ;  to  make  a  gift 
to  or  loan  to  such  persons,  deemed  proper  by  the  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  of  an  amount  or  amounts  of  money,  for  the  purpose 
of  educating  such  person  either  in  the  schools  of  this  or  any 
other  State  or  county,  and  generally  to  do  all  other  things 
not  inconsistent  herewith,  or  with  the  terms  of  the  original 
devise,  bequest  or  gift,  so  as  to  advance  the  general  education 
of  the  youths  of  this  State.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  34,  Sec.  3.] 


RIGHTS  OF  WAY  ACROSS  STATE  AND  SCHOOL  LANDS. 

Sec.  335.  That  the  State  Board  of  Land  Commissioners 
and  State  Board  of  School  Land  Commissioners  may,  at  their 
discretion,  grant  permanent  rights  of  way  or  easements  across 
or  upon  any  portion  of  State  or  School  lands,  upon  such  terms 
as  the  Board  may  determine,  for  any  ditch,  reservoir,  railroad, 
public  highway,  telegraph  and  telephone  lines,  or  other  public 
conveyances.  [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  649;  L.  1915,  Chap.  35,  Sec.  1.] 


LEASING  STATE  AND  SCHOOL  LANDS. 

Manner  of  Leasing  State  Lands. 

'Sec.  336.  The  State  Board  of  Land  Commissioners  and 
also  the  State  Board  of  School  Land  Commissioners  shall  sev- 
erally lease  all  State  and  School  lands  belonging  to  the  State 
in  such  manner  and  to  such  parties  as  shall  inure  to  the  greatest 
benefit  and  secure  the  greatest  revenue  to  the  State.  Prefer- 
ence shall  in  all  cases  be  given  to  applications  for  leases  of 


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either  State  or  School  lands  to  persons  who  are  resident  citi- 
zens and  taxpayers  of  the  State,  and  applications  made  by 
citizens  of  the  State  who  hold  title  to  lands  upon  which  they 
reside  nearest  to  any  State  or  School  lands  applied  for  shall  'be 
given  a  preference  right  over  all  other  applicants  to  lease  the 
same  at  such  rental  as  the  Board  shall  deem  equitable  and 
just;  provided,  that  such  preference  right  shall  not  be  given 
as  against  the  application  of  the  old  lessee  who  has  made  valu- 
able improvements  upon  the  lands  applied  for  or  on  lands  in  the 
vicinity  thereof,  if  the  Board  shall  find  that  such  preference 
right  will  work  extreme  financial  hardship  upon  such  old  lessee, 
and  such  preference  to  resident  title-holders  shall  extend  to  an 
area  of  lands  equal  to  twice  the  area  of  lands  to  which  such 
resident  citizen  holds  title,  not,  however,  to  exceed  six  hundred 
and  forty  acres  of  School  or  educational  institutions  lands,  or 
a  total  of  two  thousand  five  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  'State 
and  School  lands. 

Where  two  or  more  applicants  claim  preference  by  reason 
of  holding  title  to  lands  nearest  to  lands  applied  for,  the 
Boards  shall  grant  leases  upon  a  basis  as  nearly  equitable  as 
possible.  Applicant  claiming  the  preference  right  accorded 
by  this  section  must  set  forth  such  claims  at  the  time  of  making 
their  applications,  or  subsequent  thereto,  and  prior  to  the  ex- 
piration of  any  prior  lease  on  the  lands  covered  by  such  appli- 
cation. [C.  S.  1910,  Sec.  615;  L.  1915,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  1.] 


TAX  FOR  UNIVERSITY  BUILDINGS. 

Levy — Expenditure. 

Sec.  337.  In  order  that  the  University  of  Wyoming  may  be 
kept  in  a  condition  of  full  efficiency  as  required  by  the  terms 
of  Section  Sixteen  of  Article  Seven  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
State  of  Wyoming,  there  shall  be  assessed  upon  all  taxable 
property  in  the  State  in  each  year  a  tax  of  one-eighth  of  a  mill, 
in  addition  to  other  levies  or  appropriations  now  authorized 
or  to  be  authorized  by  law,  upon  each  and  every  dollar  of  the 
assessed  valuation  of  such  property,  which  tax  shall  be  levied, 
collected,  and  paid  to  the  State  Treasurer  in  the  manner  pro- 
vided by  law  for  the  levy,  collection  and  payment  of  other  State 
taxes.  Said  tax,  when  so  paid  to  the  State  Treasurer,  shall  be 
paid  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees  upon  the 
warrant  of  the  State  Auditor,  to  be  issued  upon  request  of  said 
Board  of  Trustees.  The  proceeds  of  said  tax  shall  be  ap- 
propriated and  expended  by  the  said  Board  of  Trustees  for 
such  permanent  buildings  and  improvements  as  the  said  Board 
in  its  discretion  may  deem  necessary.  Provided,  however,  that 
any  revenue  thus  collected  which  shall  be  in  excess  of  the 


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amount  required  to  meet  the  expenses  of  buildings  and  im- 
provements in  any  given  year,  may  be  expended  by  said  Board 
for  the  maintenance  of  extension  work  in  departments  other 
than  agriculture  and  home  economics.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  42.] 


LEGALIZING  CERTAIN  SCHOOL  BONDS. 

Sec.  338.  Whereas,  School  District  No.  1,  in  the  County 
of  Uinta  and  State  of  Wyoming,  held  an  election  in  the  court 
room  of  the  Uinta  County  Court  House  at  Evanston  within  said 
district  on  Monday,  the  4th  day  of  May,  1914,  on  the  proposition 
of  issuing  Twenty-five  Thousand  ($25,000.00)  Dollars  of  the 
bonds  of  said  School  District  for  the  purpose  of  building  a  high 
school  building;  and, 

Whereas,  at  said  election  a  majority  of  the  voters  voted 
in  favor  of  the  issuance  of  said  bonds ;  and, 

Whereas,  the  said  bonds  were  then  advertised  and  sold  to 
the  State  of  Wyoming  and  the  moneys  received  for  the  said 
bonds  have  been  used  in  the  erection  of  the  proposed  building, 
which  has  been  accepted  by  the  said  School  District ;  and, 

Whereas,  it  is  claimed  that  certain  irregularities  occurred 
in  relation  to  some  of  the  proceedings  in  issuing  said  bonds: 
now,  therefore : 

Be  It  Enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Wyoming. 

Sec.  1.  That  the  said  proceedings  and  the  said  bonds  be, 
and  they  are  hereby  legalized  and  rendered  valid  and  effective, 
and  the  said  bonds  are  made  valid,  legal  and  binding  in  all  the 
respects,  as  if  each  and  every  proceeding  in  the  issuance  of  the 
said  bonds  had  been  in  all  respects  due  and  regular  and  in 
conformity  with  the  statutes  governing  the  issue  of  such  bonds. 
[L.  1915,  Chap.  61.] 


EMPLOYMENT  OF  CHILDREN. 

Employment  Prohibited. 

Sec.  339.  That  no  child  under  eighteen  (18)  years  of  age 
shall  be  employed  or  permitted  to  work  in  any  'brewery,  dis- 
tillery, saloon,  concert  hall  or  other  establishment  where  malt 
or  alcoholic  liquors  .are  manufactured,  packed,  wrapped,  bot- 
tled or  sold;  no  child  under  fourteen  (14)  years  of  age  em- 
ployed in  the  public  messenger  service,  shall  be  required  to 
deliver  any  message,  package  or  any  other  thing  whatsoever 
to  any  brewery,  distillery,  saloon,  concert  hall,  or  other  estab- 
lishment where  malt  or  alcoholic  liquors  are  manufactured, 
packed,  wrapped,  bottled  or  sold,  or  to  any  premises  used  for 
immoral  purposes.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  77,  Sec.  1.] 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  109 

Improper  Exhibitions — Dangerous  Occupations. 

Sec.  340.  That  [is]  [it]  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person 
having  the  care,  custody  or  control,  of  any  child  under  the  age 
of  sixteen  (16)  years  to  exhibit,  use  or  employ  such  child  as  an 
actor  or  performer  in  any  concert  hall  or  room  where  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  are  sold  or  given  away,  or  for  any  illegal,  obscene, 
indecent  or  immoral  purposes,  exhibition  or  practice  whatso- 
ever, or  for  any  business  or  in  any  place,  situation,  or  exhibi- 
tion, or  vocation  injurious  to  the  morals  or  health,  or  dan- 
gerous to  the  life  or  limb  of  such  child,  or  cause,  procure  or 
encourage  such  child  to  engage  therein ;  nothing  in  this  section 
contained  shall  apply  to  or  affect  the  employment  or  use  of  any 
such  child  as  a  singer  or  musician  in  any  church,  school  or 
academy,  or  the  teaching  or  learning  the  science  or  practice 
of  music,  or  in  the  physical  development  of  its  body  in  any  re- 
spectable gymnasium  or  natatorium ;  nor  shall  anything  in  this 
section  be  construed  to  prevent  children  taking  part  in  what 
are  known  as  amateur  entertainments  or  theatricals  for  charity, 
or  not  for  profit,  in  schools,  churches,  settlement  houses,  or 
boys'  or  girls'  clubs.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  77,  Sec.  2.] 

Mines,  Smelters  and  Machine  Shops. 

Sec.  341.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or 
corporation,  to  take,  receive,  hire  or  employ  any  child  or  chil- 
dren under  fourteen  (14)  years  of  age,  in  any  underground 
works,  or  mine,  in  or  about  the  surface  workings  thereof,  or  to 
any  smelter,  coke  oven,  or  to  adjust  any  belt  to  any  machinery, 
or  to  operate,  or  assist  in  operating,  circular  or  band  saws; 
wood  shapers,  wood  joiners,  planers,  sand  paper  or  wood 
polishing  machinery,  emery  or  polishing  wheels  used  for  polish- 
ing metal,  wood  turning  or  boring  machinery,  stamping  ma- 
chines in  sheet  metal  and  tin  ware  manufacturing,  stamping 
machines  in  washer  and  nut  factories;  nor  shall  they  be  em- 
ployed in  operating  any  passenger  or  freight  elevators,  steam 
boiler,  steam  machinery,  or  other  steam  generating  apparatus, 
or  automobiles,  wire  or  iron  straightening  machinery;  nor 
shall  they  operate,  or  assist  in  operating,  rolling  mill  machinery, 
punchers,  or  shears,  nor  shall  they  operate,  or  assist  in  operat- 
ing laundry  machinery,  nor  shall  they  be  employed  in  any 
capacity  in  preparing  any  composition  in  which  dangerous 
or  poisonous  acids  are  used,  and  they  shall  not  be  employed 
in  any  capacity  in  the  manufacture  of  paints,  colors,  or  white 
lead;  nor  shall  they  be  employed  in  any  capacity  whatever 
in  the  manufacture  of  goods  for  immoral  purposes.  [L.  1915, 
Chap.  77,  Sec.  3.] 

Nine  Hour  Day. 

Sec.  342.  That  no  person  under  the*age  of  fourteen  (14) 
.years  shall  be  employed,  or  suffered,  or  permitted,  to  work  at 


110  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

any  gainful  occupation,  except  farm  work  or  domestic  service, 
more  than  fifty-six  (56)  hours  in  any  one  week,  or  more  than 
nine  (9)  hours  in  any  one  day.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  77,  Sec.  4.] 

Seats  for  Girls. 

Sec.  343.  That  no  female  under  eighteen  (18)  years  of  age 
shall  be  employed,  permitted,  or  suffered  to  work  in  any 
capacity  where  such  employment  compels  her  to  remain  stand- 
ing constantly.  Every  person  who  shall  employ  any  female 
under  eighteen  (18)  years  of  age,  shall  provide  suitable  seats, 
chairs,  or  benches,  for  the  use  of  the  females  so  employed,  which 
shall  be  so  placed  as  to  be  accessible  to  such  employees,  and 
shall  permit  the  use  of  such  seats,  chairs,  or  benches,  by  them 
in  so  far  as  the  nature  of  their  work  allows,  and  there  shall 
be  provided  at  least  one  seat  to  every  three  (3)  female  em- 
ployees. [L.  1915,  Chap.  77,  iSec.  5.] 

Penalty. 

Sec.  344.  That  any  person,  firm-  or  corporation,  employing 
any  child  in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this  Act,  or  per- 
mitting, or  conniving  at  such  violation,  shall  be  deemed  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  fined 
not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  ($25.00)  nor  more  than  one 
hundred  dollars  ($100.00)  or  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  not 
less  than  thirty  (30)  days  nor  more  than  ninety  (90)  days,  or 
by  both  such  punishments,  in  the  discretion  of  the  Court.  [L. 
1915,  Chap.  77,  Sec.  6.] 


PHYSICAL  EXAMINATION  OF  SCHOOL  PUPILS. 

Teacher  to  Make  Examinations. 

Sec.  345.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  teacher  engaged  in 
teaching  in  the  public  schools  of  incorporated  cities  and  towns 
of  the  State  separately  and  carefully  to  test  and  examine  every 
child  under  his  or  her  jurisdiction  to  ascertain  if  such  child  is 
suffering  from  defective  sight  or  hearing  or  diseases  of  nose  or 
throat.  Provided,  that  such  examination  shall  be  made  by 
observation  by  the  teachers,  without  using  drugs  or  instru- 
ments and  without  coming  in  physical  contact  with  said  child. 
[L.  1915,  Chap.  127,  'Sec.  1.] 

Charts — Questions — Report. 

Sec.  346.  In  making  the  tests  required  by  Section  1  of  this 
Act  the  teacher  shall  employ  eye  testing  charts  of  a  standard 
character  approved  and  supplied  by  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  and  shall  conform  to  the  rules  of  the 
State  Superintendent  in  methods  of  applying  such  tests,  especial 
attention  being  given  to  defects  that  may  be  disclosed  by  the 
following  questions : 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  111 

1.  Does  the  pupil  habitually  suffer  from  inflamed  lids  or 
eyes  ? 

2.  Does  the  pupil  fail  to  read  a  majority  of  the  letters 
in  the  number  20  line  of  the  standard  vision  chart  with  either 
eye? 

3.  Do  the   eyes   and   head  habitually   grow  weary   and 
painful  after  study? 

4.  Does  the  pupil  appear  to  be  "cross-eyed"? 

5.  Does  the  pupil  complain  of  ear-ache  in  either  ear? 

6.  Does  matter  (pus)  or  a  foul  odor  proceed  from  either 
ear? 

7.  Does  the  pupil  fail  to  hear  an  ordinary  voice  at  twenty 
feet  in  a  quiet  room? 

8.  Is  the  pupil  frequently  subject  to  "colds  in  the  head" 
and  discharge  from  the  nose  and  throat? 

9.  Is  the  pupil  an  habitual  "mouth  breather"? 

If  ian  affirmative  answer  is  found  to  any  of  these  questions 
the  teacher  shall  give  such  pupil  a  report  to  his  parent  or 
guardian  made  on  a  report  blank  prepared  and  furnished  by 
the  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  such  report  to 
be  made  in  form  prescribed  by  the  State  Superintendent. 

It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  the  teacher  to  record  the 
results  of  the  examination  required  by  Section  1  of  this  Act 
in  such  manner  as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  2.] 

Duty  of  State  Superintendent. 

Sec.  347.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  to  prescribe  rules  for  making  such  tests 
as  are  required  by  this  Act  and  to  prepare  copies  thereof,  to- 
gether with  all  blanks,  charts  and  printed  forms  deemed  neces- 
sary by  the  State  Superintendent  for  carrying  into  effect  the 
provisions  of  this  Act,  and  to  distribute  them  to  all  the  public 
school  teachers  in  incorporated  cities  and  towns  of  the  State, 
such  distribution  to  be  made  through  the  District  Boards  or,  if 
there  be  such,  through  the  executive  officers,  thereof,  the  ex- 
penses of  such  printing  and  distribution  to  be  borne  out  of  the 
State  Superintendent's  contingent;  Provided,  that  the  annual 
expense  for  such  purpose  shall  not  exceed  one  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  3.] 

When  Tests  Are  to  Be  Made. 

Sec.  348.  During  the  first  month  of  each  school  year,  after 
the  opening  of  school,  teachers  must  make  the  tests  required  of 
this  Act  upon  the  children  then  in  attendance  at  school;  and 
thereafter,  as  children  enter  school  during  the  year,  such  tests 
must  be  made  immediately  upon  their  entrance.  [L.  1915, 
Chap.  127,  Sec.  4.] 


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Boards  of  Trustees  to  Enforce  This  Act. 

Sec.  349.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Boards  of  Trustees  of 
the  several  school  districts  of  the  State  to  enforce  the  provisions 
of  this  Act.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  127,  Sec.  5.] 


FUNDS  FOR  MAINTENANCE  OF  HIGH  SCHOOLS. 

Tax  Limit. 

Sec.  350.  That  should  any  school  district  determine  to  con- 
duct a  four  year  high  school,  with  a  course  of  study  sufficient 
to  prepare  its  pupils  for  admission  to  the  State  University, 
the  said  district  shall  then  possess  and  have  added  to  its  pres- 
ent taxing  powers,  the  taxing  powers  of  a  high  school  district 
under  the  present  high  school  district  law,  to-wit:  Not  to 
exceed  two  mills  on  the  dollar  on  all  taxable  property  in  the 
school  district  for  teachers'  wages  and  contingent  expenses  and 
in  case  of  building,  not  to  exceed  in  all  ten  mills  on  the  dollar 
on  all  taxable  property  within  the  district.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  158, 
Sec.  1.] 

Elimination  of  District  from  High  School  District. 

Sec.  351.  The  vote  to  determine  whether  or  not  any  school 
district  may  be  eliminated  from  any  high  school  district  at 
present  organized  and  that  the  said  school  district  will  main- 
tain such  a  school  shall  be  by  ballot  and  at  the  annual  meeting 
or  special  meeting  called  for  that  purpose.  The  form  of  the 
ballot  shall  be,  "For  a  Four  Year  High  School"  and  "Against 
a  Four  Year  High  School. ' '  Fifty-one  per  cent  of  the  electors 
present  of  each  and  every  school  district  comprising  said  high 
school  district  and  voting  for  the  high  school  shall  be  sufficient 
authority  for  the  elimination  of  said  district  from  said  high 
school  district  and  for  the  voting  and  levying  of  the  additional 
funds  above  mentioned  for  high  school  purposes.  [L.  1915, 
Chap.  158,  Sec.  2.] 

Taxing  Power  Continues. 

Sec.  352.  After  the  establishment  of  such  a  high  school  the 
power  shall  remain  with  the  district  to  provide  annually  for 
its  maintenance  so  long  as  it  shall  maintain  a  four  year  high 
school  of  the  above  standard.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  158,  Sec.  3.] 


STATE  TEACHERS'  INSTITUTE. 

Held  Annually — Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

Sec.  353.  To  promote  uniformity  in  the  methods  of  teach- 
ing throughout  the  State  and  greater  efficiency  in  the  public 
schools,  through  lectures,  discussion,  demonstration,  and  other 
means  within  the  scope  of  institute  work,  the  State  Superin- 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  113 

tendent  of  Public  Instruction  shall  hold  and  conduct  annually 
a  State  Teachers'  Institute  at  a  time  and  place  to  be  determined 
by  said  Superintendent.  Said  institute  may  be  held  at  the  same 
time  and  place  as  the  annual  meeting  of  the  State  Teachers' 
Association  and  concurrently  therewith,  in  case  the  said  asso- 
ciation does  not  require  as  a  condition  of  membership  the  pay- 
ment of  a  fee  or  dues  by  a  teacher  who  has  paid  the  annual  cer- 
tificate registration  fee  as  hereinafter  provided.  The  State 
Superintendent  shall  appoint  a  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the 
State  Teachers'  Institute,  and  shall  have  authority  to  fill  any 
vacancy  occurring  in  either  of  those  offices,  and  determine  the 
amount  of  compensation,  if  any,  to  'be  paid  said  officers  re- 
spectively ;  provided,  that  such  compensation  shall  'be  paid  only 
out  of  the  funds  provided  by  this  act  for  defraying  the  expenses 
of  holding  and  conducting  the  State  Institute.  The  secretary 
and  treasurer  so  appointed  shall  hold  office  at  the  pleasure  of 
the  Superintendent,  and  the  treasurer  shall  be  required  to  give 
a  bond  in  a  sum  not  less  than  one  thousand  dollars  for  the 
faithful  performance  of  his  duties  and  the  faithful  accounting 
for  any  money  which  shall  come  into  his  hands  as  such  officer, 
to  be  approved  by  the  Superintendent ;  the  fee  or  charge  for 
said  bond  to  'be  paid  out  of  the  funds  made  by  this  act  available 
for  defraying  the  expenses  of  said  Institute.  [L.  1915,  Chap. 
161,  Sec.  1.] 

Certificate  Registration  Fee. 

Sec.  354.  At  the  time  of  the  first  registration  of  a  teacher's 
certificate  of  any  class  in  the  office  of  the  County  Superinten- 
dent of  Schools  of  -any  county,  as  required  by  Section  2022  of 
the  Compiled  Statutes,  1910,  the  teacher  named  in  said  certifi- 
cate shall  pay  to  the  County  Superintendent  as  a  registration 
fee  the  sum  of  one  dollar,  and  thereafter  in  each  school  year  a 
like  fee  of  one  dollar,  to  be  known  as  the  annual  registration 
fee,  shall  be  paid  by  each  holder  of  a  teacher's  certificate  of  any 
class,  who  is  engaged  in  teaching  in  any  of  the  public  schools 
in  the  State,  to  the  County  Superintendent  of  the  county  where- 
in the  holder  of  such  certificate  is  so  engaged ;  provided,  that  in 
case  any  such  certificate  shall  be  registered  in  more  than  one 
county  during  the  same  school  year  only  one  fee  shall  be  paid 
therefor,  the  same  to  be  collected  by  the  Superintendent  with 
whom  the  certificate  is  first  registered  during  that  year.  The 
registration  fees  herein  provided  for  shall  be  transmitted  by 
each  County  Superintendent  of  Schools  to  the  Treasurer  of 
the  State  Teachers'  Institute,  with  a  statement  showing  the 
names  of  the  several  teachers  paying  the  same,  and  thereupon 
the  said  treasurer  shall  issue  a  receipt  for  the  amount  to  the 
County  Superintendent.  A  duplicate  of  the  statement  sent  to 
the  treasurer  shall  at  the  same  time  be  transmitted  by  the 


114  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

County  Superintendent  to  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction.  The  form  of  the  report  transmitting  such  fees  and 
the  receipt  therefor  shall  be  prepared  and  furnished  by  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  The  fees  thus 
collected  shall  constitute  a  fund  in  the  'hands  of  the  treasurer  of 
the  institute  for  the  payment  of  the  expenses  of  holding  and 
conducting  the  said  State  Teachers'  Institute,  and  the  same 
shall  be  paid  out  by  the  Institute  Treasurer  upon  the  order  of 
the  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  attested  by  the  Insti- 
tute Secretary.  The  term  "school  year"  as  used  in  this  section 
shall  be  understood  and  construed  to  mean  the  period  begin- 
ning the  first  day  of  September  and  ending  the  thirty-first  day 
of  August  of  the  following  calendar  year.  [L.  1915,  Chap.  161, 
Sec.  2.] 

Co-Operation  Between  State  and  Government. 

Sec.  355.  The  sum  of  ten  thousand  dollars,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any 
funds  in  the  State  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  for 
the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  of  the  agreement 
entered  into  between  the  Governor  of  the  State  of  Wyoming 
and  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry  of  tlhe  United  States  Gov- 
ernment, said  amount  to  be  expended  under  the  supervision 
and  direction  of  the  State  Board  of  Charities  and  Reform. 
(Approved  by  Governor  for  Seventy-five  Hundred  Dollars 
only.)  [L.  1919,  Chap.  145.] 


CO-OPERATION  WITH  U.  S.  IN  EDUCATION. 

Sec.  356.  The  State  of  Wyoming  hereby  agrees  to  accept 
the  provisions  of  the  pending  bill  in  the  United  States  Senate 
designated  as  Senate  4987,  to  create  a  Department  of  Educa- 
tion, etc,  or  of  any  bill  or  act  which  may  be  enacted  into  law 
by  Congress  relating  to  the  subject  of  said  bill,  and  hereby 
designates  the  State  Board  of  Education  and  confers  upon  said 
State  Board  all  necessary  powers  to  cooperate  with  the  De- 
partment of  Education  of  the  United  'States  in  the  administra- 
tion of  such  bill  or  act  of  Congress  in  so  far  as  the  same  relates 
to  the  aiding  of  the  states  in  the  promotion  of  education.  [L. 
1919,  Chap.  41,  Sec.  1.] 

Sec.  357.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  State  Board  of  Educa- 
tion to  provide  for  the  education  and  training,  and  when  neces- 
sary, for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  children  resident  in 
this  State  who  are  afflicted  with  stuttering,  stammering,  de- 
fects of  the  organs  of  speech,  arrested  physical  development  or 
other  physical  defects  (caused  by  infantile  paralysis  or  other- 
wise) or  who  are  defective  in  mental  development,  and  who  are 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  115 

in  consequence  of  such  defects  unfitted  for  attendance  in  the 
pu'blic  schools,  and  for  whose  instruction,  treatment  and  care 
no  adequate  provision  is  made  in  the  pu'blic  schools  or  other 
public  institutions  of  the  State.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  State 
Board  of  Education  thus  to  provide  for  such  children  under  the 
age  of  twenty-one  years,  by  placing  them  in  some  school  or 
institution  in  this  State  or  elsewhere,  as  may  be  deemed  ex- 
pedient, or  to  provide  for  special  classes  for  such  children  in 
the  local  schools  of  any  city  or  rural  district.  [L.  1919,  Chap. 
41,  Sec.  2.] 

iSec.  358.  The  State  Board  of  Education  shall  investigate 
and  ascertain  what  children  residing  in  the  State  may  be  suit- 
able for  the  care,  education  and  training  provided  for  by  this 
Act,  and  for  such  purposes  may  secure  such  expert  assistance 
and  advice  as  it  shall  deem  needful,  and  any  officials  or  em- 
ployees of  the  State  or  of  any  county,  city  or  public  institution 
in  the  State,  may  be  called  upon  'by  the  'State  Board  to  render 
appropriate  services  without  other  or  further  compensation 
than  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses  incurred  in  such 
service,  or  the  State  Board  of  Education  may,  if  it  deem  it 
advisable,  employ  an  educational  or  medical  expert  to  make 
such,  tests  and  diagnoses  as  will  be  necessary  to  determine  what 
children  need  such  treatment.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  41,  Sec.  3.] 

Sec.  359.  All  necessary  expense  for  investigation,  clothing, 
subsisting  and  transportation  of  pupils,  and  of  keeping  and 
maintaining  them  in  such  institution  or  institutions,  shall  be 
paid  out  of  funds  hereby  appropriated  upon  itemized  bills, 
which  when  allowed  by  the  State  Board  ghiall  'be  certified  to  by 
an  officer  of  said  State  Board ;  Provided,  that  when  the  State 
Board  is  satisfied  that  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  children 
are  financially  alble  to  bear  such  expense  in  whole  or  in  part 
they  shall  in  all  cases  be  required  to  do  so.  The  said  State 
Board  shall  assume  the  care  for  such  children  only  in  cases 
where  the  Board  of  Education  of  the  sdhool  district  in  which 
such  pupils  reside  shall  approve  such  action.  [L.  1919,  Chap. 
41,  Sec.  4.] 

Sec.  360.  The  sum  of  Ten  Thousand  Dollars,  or  so  much 
thereof  as  may  'be  necessary,  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any 
funds  in  the  State  Treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated  for  the 
purpose  of  defraying  the  expenses  incurred  under  this  Act  for 
the  two  years  ending  March  1,  1921.  [L.  1919,  Chap.  41,  Sec.  5.] 


INDEX 


ADVANCED  NORMAL  TRAINING  DEPARTMENT 

CERTIFICATE—                                                                      Section 
When  issued 38 

AGRICULTURAL  EXTENSION  WORK— 

See  co-operative  agricultural  extension  work. 

APPEAL- 
TO    State    Superintendent   from    District    Boundary    Board — on 
formation  of  a  new  district 84 

APPROPRIATIONS— 

For  Federal  vocational  educational  art 45-46 

For  High  School  Cadets 61 

For  teachers'  institutes „_..  89 

For  co-operative  agricultural  work 319 

Vocational  education  355 

Co-operation  with  U.  S.  in  education 360 

ARBOR  DAY— 

Legal  holiday  313 

How  designated  314 

ATTORNEY  GENERAL— 

To  investigate  contracts  with  publishers 180 

State  funds — suit  to  be  brought  on  bonds  to  secure — by 291 

BIRDS— 

Unlawful  to  kill— penalty  304 

Eggs — destruction  of — unlawful — penalty 305 

Scientific  use  of— permitted  306 

Scientific  use  of — certificates  for — term  of  centificates — 

bond  307-308 

Not  protected  309 

BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS— 

See  "Directors". 

BOARD  OF  HEALTH— 

Vaccination — may  require 310 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES— 

See  "Trustees". 

BOND— 

Of  Treasurer  ...  ....127 


118  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

BONDS—  Section 

School  District — how  issued 184 

School  District — sale  of — application  of  proceeds 185 

School  District — pledge  of  payment 186 

School  District — tax  levy  to  redeem  and  pay  interest 187 

School  District — redemption  of 188 

School  District — payment  of  interest  on  189 

School  District — preparation  of  190 

School  District — misapplication  of  funds — penalty  191 

Funds  from  School  District — to  be  in  custody  of  County 

Treasurer  192 

School  District  Refunding — authority  to  issue 194 

School  District  Refunding — form,  time,  and  interest  195 

School  District  Refunding — Registration  of  196 

School  District  Refunding — by  whom  signed  and  sale  thereof 197 

School  District  Refunding — coupon  of — when  paid  198 

School  District  Refunding — tax  to  pay  principal  and  interest 199 

School  District  Refunding — how  redeemed  200 

School  District  Refunding — property  pledged  for  payment 201 

School  District  Refunding — County  Treasurer  to  have  custody  of 

funds  from 202 

High  School  District — form  of — how  issued,  etc 220 

High  School  District — how  submitted— limit — form  of  221 

High  School  District — what  pledge  for  payment 221 

High  School  District — payment  of 222 

High  School — tax  for — how  collected 224 

Certain  school  bonds  legalized  338 

State,  County,  School  District  and  Municipal — exempt  from  taxa- 
tion— when 358 

BOOKS— 

Publishing  houses  selling 7 

Lists  to  be  published 25 

To  be  free 175 

From  what  fund  paid  for 176 

How  paid  for 177 

Orders  for — from  what  fund  paid 178 

Contracts  for — what  vitiates 179 

Property  of  district  *. , 181 

Pupils  may  purchase 182 

CERTIFICATES— 

How  obtained  29 

Classes  of 31 

How  invalidated 32 

Must  be  registered 

Issuance  of 33 

Revocation  of  -  34 

Examination  in  physiology  and  hygiene  required  for 139 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  119 

CERTIFICATION  OF—  Section 

Of  Principals 17 

Of  Superintendents 17 

Of  Supervisors  17 

Of  teachers  17 

CERTIFICATE  DIVISION— 

To  provide  for  examination 23 

Created  27 

Who,  the  head  of 27 

To  keep  list  of  teachers 28 

To  recommend  issuance  of  certificates 20   (29) 

CERTIFICATE  REGISTRATION  FEE— 

By  whom  payable 354 

CHRISTMAS— 

Legal  holiday  313 

CHILDREN— 

List  of  delinquents  to  be  sent  by  teacher  to  County   Superin- 
tendent    133 

List  to  be  furnished  by  clerk ....133 

List  of  delinquent  to  be  furnished  by  County  Superintendent  to 

Sheriff 133 

Annual  enumeration  of 165 

Penalty  for  false  enumeration  of 168 

Failure  to  make  enumeration 167 

Admitted  from  one  High  School  District  to  another 235 

Employment  of — when  prohibited  339 

Improper  exhibitions — dangerous  occupations 340 

Mines,   smelters   and  machine  shops — unlawful   to   employ   in — 

when    341 

Nine  hour  day 342 

Seats  for  girls  343 

Penalty  for  violating  laws  as  to 344 

Physical  examination  of — State  Superintendent  to  prescribe  rules 

'  for    347 

Physical  examination  of — test — when  to  be  made 348 

Physical  examination  of — Trustees — duties  of .....349 

Defective — provision  for  educating 356-360 

CITY— 

To  be  in  one  School  District 83 

Funds — interest  on,  how  computed  297 

Funds — security  required  for  deposits  of 298 

Funds — collateral  security  may  be  given  for  deposits  of ....299 

Funds — not  deposited — Treasurer's  duty 300 

CITY  SUPERINTENDENT— 

To  make  reports 24 


120  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

CITY  TREASURER—  Section 

To  deposit  city  funds — where 294-296 

May  invest  city  funds  in  U.  S.  or  State  bonds 295 

Duty  as  to  funds  not  deposited 300 

Funds— liability  for  301 

Offering  bribe  to — punishment  for 303 

CLAIMS— 

Against  district — how  paid 124 

CLERK- 
TO  certify  number  of  teachers  74 

To  receive  duplicate  remittance  slips  ...'. 79 

To  certify  debt  limit 154 

To  keep  accounts  155 

To  give  notice  of  District  meetings 156 

Duties  of 157 

To  make  report — penalty  for  failure  to  do  so 158 

School  District — to  certify  amount  of  money  voted  in  district 164 

COLLEGES— 

Approved   1 " 

COMPULSORY  EDUCATION— 131 

COUNTIES— 

Boundaries  of — changed — effect  on  School  Districts 145 

Funds — not  deposited  300 

Treasurer's  duty 300 

Funds — security  required  for  deposits  of 298 

Funds — collateral  security  may  be  given  for  deposits  of 299 

COUNTY  COMMISSIONERS— 

To  levy  county  and  school  taxes 255 

May  file  request  for  county  agent 322 

To  establish  County  Library 95 

To  make  appropriation  for  teachers'  institutes 89 

To  levy  tax  for  payment  of  High  School  bonds 221 

COMMISSIONER  OF  EDUCATION— 

By  whom  appointed 19 

Power  of 20 

Qualifications  of 21 

Duties  

To  examine  accounts  and  expenditures 

To  suggest  course  of  study  

May  require  reports 24 

To  have  school  laws  printed  and  distributed 24 

To  publish  list  of  text  books 25 

To  conduct  investigations  as  to  educational  needs 26 

Chief  officer  of  Certificate  division....  27 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  121 

COMMISSIONER  OF  EDUCATION—  ( Continued )  Section 

Chief  of  State  Teachers'  Employment  Bureau 27 

Salary 35 

CO-OPERATIVE  AGRICULTURAL  EXTENSION  WORK— 

Act  of  Congress  accepted— authority  of  University  Trustees. 318 

Funds  for  county  work — agreement  with  State  University 320 

Districts  may  be  organized — how 321 

Funds  from  other  sources — how  applied....". 323 

CO-OPERATION  WITH  U.  S.  IN  EDUCATION— 

County  Agents  to  be  furnished 322 

State  Board  of  Education  to  provide  for— its  duties 356-7-8-9-360 

Appropriation  for 360 

COUNSEL— 

May  be  employed  by  school  officers 142 

COUNTY  CLERK— 

Duty  as  to  poll  taxes 326 

COUNTY  LIBRARIES— 

Established — when — tax  for — levied  95 

Tax  for — how  levied  and  collected 96 

Board  of  Directors — how  appointed — their  duties 97 

Board  of  Directors— their  duties 97-98-99-100 

To  be  free 99 

Location  of — Librarian  for — and  donations  to 98 

COUNTY  ASSESSOR— 

Poll  taxes — duty  of  327 

May  collect  poll  taxes  from  employers — how 328 

Poll  taxes — may  seize  and  sell  property  for 329 

Poll  taxes — to  make  monthly  and  final  settlement  for — when 330 

Poll  tax — to  keep  roll  of  persons  subject  to 331 

COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT— 

Head  of  county  educational  matters 2 

To  report  to  State  Superintendent 8 

To  make  reports 24 

Nominated  and  elected  on  non-partisan  ticket 55 

A  candidate  for — how  to  become 56 

Petition  for  nomination 56 

Ballots  for  election  of 57-59 

Voters  not  to  declare  party  affiliation  at  election  of 58 

To  distribute  school  funds 63 

Qualifications  of 68 

Oath  and  bond 69 

Prohibited  from  teaching 69 

To  visit  schools 86 

Salary  of  70 


122  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

COUNTY  SUPERINTENDENT— (Continued)  Section 

Duties 71 

Office  at  county  seat  ..  72 

Records  of  73 

To  certify  number  of  teachers  in  each  school  district 75 

To  apportion  school  taxes  77-78 

To  distribute  school  taxes 77 

To  send  clerks  duplicate  remittance  slips 79 

Member  of  District  Boundary  Board 80 

To  be  Secretary  of  the  District  Boundary  Board 81 

To  notify  clerks  of  establishment  or  change  of  Districts 82 

To  recommend  dismissal  of  teachers  86 

To  make  reports.    Penalty  for  failure  to  make  reports 87 

To  hear  appeals  from  District  Boards 88 

To  see  that  reports  of  clerks  are  made 88 

To  hold  institutes  89 

May  appoint  Deputy  91 

To  cause  prescribed  subjects  to  be  taught 92 

To  apportion  State  School  Land  income  fund . 94 

To  call  first  meeting  in  new  District.    How  first  meeting  called. ...102 

And  District  Board  to  establish  High  Schools 128 

To  furnish  list  of  delinquent  children  133 

Not  to  sell  school  supplies 136 

To  report  number  of  children  to  State  Superintendent 169 

Duty  hi  apportioning  State  School  funds 170 

COUNTY  EDUCATIONAL  MATTERS— 

Under  supervision  of  County  Superintendent 2 

COUNTY  TREASURER— 

To  give  additional  bond  to  School  District 193 

To  deposit  county  funds — where 294-296 

May  invest  county  funds  in  U.  S.  or  State  Bonds 295 

Funds — interest  on — how  computed  297 

Duty  as  to  funds  not  deposited ....300 

Funds— liabilty  for  -.301 

Funds — to  make  no  profit  out  of 302 

Offering  bribe  to — punishment  for  .-. ....303 

Fines  imposed  by  Justice  of  Peace  to  be  paid  to 316-317 

To  pay  School  District  funds — when  54 

County  Treasurer  to  have  custody  of  School  Districts  Bond  lunds..!92 

To  have  custody  of  funds  of  School  District  Refunding  Bonds 202 

To  register  School  District  Refunding  Bonds,  Custodian  of  High 
School  District  funds — how  paid  ....219 

COUNTY  SCHOOL  TAX— 

Amount  of — and  limit  -  76 

Apportionment  of ....77-78 

How,  when  and  by  whom  distributed 77 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  123 

CORPORATION—  Section 

School  District  to  be  108 

High  School  District  to  be : 207 

COUNTY  COMMISSIONERS— 

To  provide  funds  for  county  agricultural  work 320 

COUNTY  TEACHERS'  INSTITUTES— 

To  be  held  annually — appropriation  for 89 

Two  or  more  counties  may  join 90 

COLORED  CHILDREN— 

To  have  separate  schools 129 

DEBT  LIMIT- 
TO  be  certified  by  Clerk  of  District 15-1 

DEFECTIVE  CHILDREN— 

See  "Children". 

DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION— 

Created  1 

See  "State  Board  of  Education". 

DIRECTORS— BOARD  OF— 

New  district — how  elected  103 

To  transmit  copy  of  oath  to  County  Superintendent 104 

School  District — take  oath 104 

Board  of — of  whom  composed  and  how  elected 105 

May  transfer  money  from  school  house  fund  to  teachers'  fund 113 

Shall  qualify— how  116 

Meeting  of  Board  of  117 

Powers  and  duties  of  Board 118 

Members  of  Board  of — to  administer  oaths 119 

May  remove  scholars  120 

To  advertise  for  bids 121 

To  examine  Treasurer's  books  122 

To  report  to  District  meeting 122 

To  appoint  visiting  committee  123 

To  audit  and  pay  claims 124 

Vacancy — how  filled 126 

And  County  Superintendent  to  establish  High  School 128 

May  establish  separate  schools  for  colored  children 129 

To  employ  and  pay  teachers 130 

To  establish  manual  training  schools 148 

To  provide  books  175 

Of  School  District  may  issue  Refunding  Bonds 194 

To  redeem  bonds  200 

DISTRICT  CLERK— 

See  "Clerk". 


124  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

DONATIONS—                                                                                       Section 
For  schools,  to  be  received  by  State  Treasurer 146 

ELECTORS— 

Qualifications  of 115 

EDUCATION— STATE  DEPARTMENT  OF— 

Created  1 

EDUCATIONAL  MATTERS  OF  DISTRICT— 

Under  supervision  of  District  Board  of  Trustees :: 

ELECTIONS— 

Annual — election  of  Trustees  105 

Who  may  vote 115 

To  determine  issue  of  School  District  Bonds — how  held 183-184 

For  formation  of  High  School  District  208 

For  formation  of  High  School  District — how  conducted  209 

For  formaton  of  High  School  District  to  be  opened  by  Trustees.. 210 
For  formation  of  High  School  Districts — who  to  act  as  judges. ...211 
For  formation  of  High  School  Districts — how  conducted  ....212-213 

For  Trustees  of  High  School  District — when  held 215 

High  School  Bonds — how  conducted,  etc 221 

High  Schools — for  annexation  of — how  conducted,  etc ....241 

High  Schools — for  annexation  of — how  conducted,  etc 241-242 

ELECTIONS— GENERAL 

State  office — vacancy  in  243 

State  officers  to  be  elected 244 

County  officers  to  be  elected  245 

Who  may  vote,  at 246 

Special  elections  for  county  and  precinct  offices  to  be  ordered  by 

County  Commissioners  247 

Vacancy — who  determines 248 

Special  elections — who  may  vote  at 249 

Office  holders — qualifications  of 250 

Woman  Suffrage 251 

Who  disqualified  from  voting  or  holding  office 252 

Resignation  of  elective  office 253 

Vacancies  in  elective  offices — how  caused 254 

Holidays — general  election  days 313 

ENUMERATION— 

Of  children — to  be  made  165 

To  be  employed 166 

Of  children — penalty  for  false  168 

Failure  to  make  167 

EXAMINATIONS— 

For  certificates  30 

For  certificate — fee  for 30 

In  physiology  and  hygiene  required  for  certificates 139 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  125 

FEDERAL  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION  ACT—  Section 

Acceptance  of  42 

State  Treasurer  custodian  of  funds  of 44 

Appropriation  for 45-46 

FEDERAL  BOARD  OF  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION— 

State  Board  of  Education  to  co-operate  with 43 

FINES— 

Collection  and  disposition  of '. 143 

Fines,  penalties,  etc.,  to  go  to  school  fund 143 

Officer  failing  to  pay  over — penalty 144 

Imposed  by  Justice  of  Peace,  to  go  to  school  funds 316-317 

FLAG- 
TO  be  displayed 164 

FIELD  AGENTS— 

Of  State  Department  of  Education IS 

FIRE  ESCAPES— 

On  school  houses  47 

FOURTH  OF  JULY— 

Legal  holiday  313 

FUNDS— 

School  District — to  be  paid — when 54 

School — to  be  distributed 63 

Of  new  districts  to  be  drawn  from  old 85 

Transfer  from  School  House  fund  to  Teachers'  fund 113 

School  fund  to  be  kept  by  State  Treasurer 137 

Teachers — to  be  kept  by  Treasurer  and  paid  out  how 160 

School  House — of  what  it  consists 161 

Apportioned  to  District  to  be  received  by  Treasurer 162 

State  School — distribution  of 170 

For  Kindergartens — how  voted  174 

Books  paid  for  out  of  School  Land  Income  fund 176 

From    School    District    Bonds    to    be    in    custody    of    County 

Treasurer  192 

From    School   District  Refunding   Bonds — to   be   in   custody   of 

County  Treasurer 202 

From  School  District  Refunding  Bonds — how  used 269 

Land  income — appropriated  269 

Land  income  fund —  when  available 268 

From  School  District  Refunding  Bonds— how  used 203-204-205 

State  officers  to  pay  State  funds  to  State  Treasurer  monthly 280 

State  Board  of  Deposits — members — duties 281 

Depositories  of — designation 282 

State — to  be  deposited  when— limit  283 

State — interest  on — and  security : 284 


126  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

FUNDS — (Continued)  Section 

State — annual  interest  rate — how  fixed 286 

State — interest  on — how  computed  287 

State — withdrawals    of — from    depositories — liability    of    State 

Treasurer  288 

State — not  deposited — duty  and  liability  of  State  Treasurer 289 

State — collateral  security  for — to  be  sold — when 290 

State — bonds  to  secure  deposit  of — suit  brought  on 291 

State — permanent  to  be  invested 292 

County — depositories  for — to  be  designated  how — interest 293-294 

City — depositories  for — to  be  designated — how 296 

Interest 293-294-296 

School    District  —  depositories    for  —  to    be    designated  —  how — 

interest  293-294-296 

State — collateral — security  for 295 

County  and  City  or  School  District,  may  be  invested  in  U.  S. 

or  State  bonds 295 

County,  City,  Town,  or  School  District — interest  on — how  com- 
puted   297 

County,   City,   Town,   or   School   District— security   required   for 

deposits  of  298 

County,  City,  Town,  or  School  Districts — collateral  security  may 

be  given  for  deposits  of 299 

County,  City,  Town,  or  School  Districts — not  deposited — Treas- 
urer's duty 300 

County,  City,  Town,  or  School  District — Treasurer's  liability  for..301 
State,  County,  Town,  or  School  District — Treasurer  of — to  make 

no  profits  out  of 302 

State,  County,  Town,  or  School  District — offering  bribe  for  de- 
posit of — punishment  for "03 

School — poll  taxes  to  go  to 331 

School — fines  to  go  to — when  316-317 

For  county  agricultural  work 320-323 

High  Schools — maintenance  of — tax  limit 350 

High  Schools — additional  tax  for — when  separated  from  School 
District  351 

GARNISHMENT— 

Public  officers— subject  to 315 

GENERAL  ELECTIONS— 

See  "Elections — General". 

GIFTS— 

May  be  accepted  by  High  Schools ...  62 

GIFTS  FOR  EDUCATIONAL  PURPOSES— 

Charitable  trusts — exempt  from  taxation  332 

Trustees  may  incorporate  333 

Executors — trustees  or  corporations  receiving — powers  of 334 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  127 

HIGH  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS—  Section 

May  accept  gifts 62 

How  created  206 

To  be  body  corporate  207 

How  formed 208 

Elections  for  formation  of —to  be  opened  by  Trustees 210 

Trustees  to  act  as  judges  for  formation  of 211 

Election  for  formation  of — how  conducted 212-213 

First  Trustees— how  appointed  214 

Trustees — when  elected  215 

Trustees — term  of  oflice 216 

Hoard  of  Trustees — quorum  217 

High  School  in — where  located  218 

Issue  bonds  for  what  220 

Tax  levy  for — limit  of 220 

P.onds — issue  of — how  submitted — limit  221 

Trustees  to  make  estimates  for  maintenance 223 

Bonds — tax  for — how  collected 224 

( >tfkvrs— their  duties 219 

Trustees  to  provide  buildings  226 

Trustees  to  employ  teachers 227 

High  Schools — by  whom  governed  228 

High  Schools — course  of  study  in 229 

High  Schools  may  be  united  for  military  training 230 

HIGH  SCHOOLS- 
HOW  established  128 

In  High  School  Districts — where  located 218 

Funds  for  maintenance  of — tax  limit ^ 350 

Tax  to  maintain  352 

Tax  for — when  separated  from  School  District 357 

HIGH  SCHOOL  CADETS— 

Appropriation  for  uniforms  for  61 

High  Schools  having  military  training — how  financed   232 

High  Schools  having  military  training — to  be  reported  on 233 

High  Schools — tuition  and  admisson  234 

Admission  of  pupils  from  other  Districts 235 

Trustees  entitled  mileage — no  compensation  236 

High  School — certificate  of  graduation  from  to  admit  to  Univer- 
sity   237 

High  Schools— no  tuition  to  residents  238 

High  Schools— to  be  annexed — how  239-240 

High  Schools — election  for  annexation  of — how  conducted.. ..241-242 
High  Schools — annexation  of — County  Commissioners'  duties 242 

HIGH  SCHOOL  NORMAL  TRAINING  DEPARTMENTS— 

Established    37 

Subjects  taught  in  37 


128  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

HIGH  SCHOOL  NORMAL  TRAINING  DEPARTMENT— ( Con- 
tinued) Section 

Who  admitted  38 

Equipment  furnished — teachers  employed 39 

Tax  levy  for 40 

Rooms  for — provided  41 

HOLIDAYS— 

See  "Legal  Holidays". 

INCORPORATION— 

Of  Trustees  of  gifts  for  educational  purposes 333 

INSTITUTES— 

County  Teachers'  Institutes  to  be  held  annually — appropriation 

for   89 

Two  or  more  counties  may  join 90 

State  Teachers'  Institutes — held  annually 353 

State  Teachers'  Institutes  funds — how  realized 354 

INTEREST  AND  USURY— 

When  rate  not  effective 311 

KINDERGARTEN- 
HOW  established 170 

Cost  of  establishing  and  maintaining — how  paid 172 

Qualifications  of  teachers 172 

LABOR  DAY— 

National  holiday 313 

LAND  INCOME  FUND— 

When  available 268 

Appropriated  269 

LEGAL  HOLIDAYS— 

What  days  are  313 

Arbor  day — how  designated  314 

LINCOLN'S  BIRTHDAY— 

Legal  holiday 313 

MANUAL  TRAINING  SCHOOL- 

Establishment  of  148 

MEETINGS— 

Annual — when  to  be  held 109 

Annual — what  may  be  done  at 110 

Annual — how  conducted 114 

Of  Board  of  Directors 117 

Annual — may  adopt  rules  of  order 117 

Special  District— notice  of 125 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  129 

MEETINGS— (Continued)  Section 

Electors  may  provide  for  Kindergarten  at  annual 174 

Notice  of — how  and  by  whom  given 156 

MEMORIAL  DAY— 

Legal  holiday 313 

MILITARY  TRAINING— 

In  High  Schools 230-233 

MONEY— 

See  "Funds". 

How  voted  110 

NEW  YEARS— 

Legal  holiday  313 

NORMAL  SCHOOLS— 

Approved   17 

NORMAL  TRAINING  DEPARTMENT  IN  HIGH  SCHOOLS— 

Established   37 

Subjects  to  be  taught  in  :..... 37 

Who  admitted 38 

Teachers  to  be  furnished 39 

Equipment  furnished — teachers  employed 39 

Tax  levy  for 40 

Rooms  for — provided 41 

NORMAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  UNIVERSITY— 

State  Superintendent  to  advise  11 

NOTICE— 

Of  special  District  meetings  125 

OATHS— 

By  whom  administered 119 

Of  Directors  of  School  Districts 104 

OFFENSES— 

School — defined — penalty  134 

PHYSICAL  EXAMINATION  OF  PUPILS— 

Charts — questions — reports 346 

State  Superintendent  to  prescribe  rules  for 347 

Tests — when  to  be  made 348 

Trustees — duties  of 349 

PHYSIOLOGY  AND  HYGIENE— 

Examination  in — required  for  certificates 139 

POLL  TAXES— 

See  "Taxes"  and  "Taxation  and  Revenue". 


130  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING 

PRINCIPALS—  Section 

To  report  8 

Certification  of  17 

May  amend  and  change  course  of  study 92 

PUBLIC  INDEBTEDNESS— 

Officer  creating — in  excess  of  constitutional  limit,  liable 101 

In  excess  of  constitutional  limit,  void 101 

PUBLISHERS— 

Contracts  with — investigated  ISO 

Contracts  with — how 179 

Of  school  book — not  be  member  of  trust — to  give  bond — making 

contracts  without  giving  bond  7 

Contracts  with  7 

PUBLIC  KINDERGARTEN— 

See  "Kindergarten". 

PUBLIC  MONEY— 

See  "Funds". 

PUBLIC  OFFICERS— 

Offering  bribe  to — punishment  for 303 

Subject  to  garnishment  315 

Failing  to  pay  over  money — penalty  144 

PUBLIC  LANDS— 

Taxation — equity  of  entryman  in  public  lands  under  reclamation 
project — subject  to  taxation  201 

RELIGIOUS  BELIEF- 
NO  discrimination  in  teachers  on  account  of 138 

RIGHTS  OF  WAY— 

Across  State  or  School  land — how  granted 335 

RULES  OF  ORDER- 
HOW  adopted 112 

SALARY 

Commissioner  of  Education 35 

County  Superintendent 70 

Public  officers — may  be  garnished  315 

Of  Deputy  County  Superintendent  91 

SCHOOLS— 

Humane  treatment  of  animals  to  be  taught 149 

Course  of  study  in  15 

Number  of — how  determined  110 

Separate  for  colored  children  1-9 

Free  to  all  children  131 

Donations  for — to  be  received  by  State  Treasurer....  ....146 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  1  HI 

SCHOOL  BOOKS—  Section 

Publishing  houses  may  sell — when  7 

Not  to  be  sold  by  any  school  officer 136 

SCHOOL  CENSUS— 

Rules  and  regulations  for  taking 8 

To  be  taken  annually  8 

SCHOOL  DISTRICTS— 

Funds  to  be  paid  to — when : 54 

Clerk  to  certify  number  of  teachers 74 

Number  of  teachers  in — to  be  certified  by  County  Superintendent..  75 

Clerks  to  receive  duplicate  remittance  slips 79 

How  formed,  changed  and  abolished 80 

Clerk  of — to  receive  notice  of  establishment  or  change  in  District..  82 

City  or  village  in  one 83 

New  Districts  to  draw  money  from  old 85 

Trustees  to  give  teacher  hearing  before  dismissal 86 

What  Districts  to  share  in  State  School  Land  Income  Fund 94 

Not  allowed  to  create  indebtedness  in  excess  of  constitutional 

limit 101 

New — meeting  how  called  102 

Trustees  of  new — how  elected.    Directors  of  new — how  elected... .103 

Officers — when  and  how  elected 105 

When  to  have  six  Trustees 106 

When  to  have  seal 107 

To  be  corporation 108 

Annual  meeting — when  to  be  held 109 

Annual  meeting — what  may  be  done  at 110 

Elections — who  may  vote  at  115 

Clerk  to  deliver  books  and  records  to  successor 141 

Treasurer  to  deliver  books  and  records  to  successor 141 

To  receive  certain  fines 143 

Affected  by  change  in  County  Boundaries 145 

Board  of  Directors  to  establish  Manual  Training  Schools 148 

Director  to  preside  at  meetings  and  countersign  orders 150 

Drafts  arid  orders — how  drawn 151 

By  whom  to  appear  in  actions  152 

Clerk  of— duties  153 

Clerk  to  certify  debt  limit 154 

Own  books 181 

Clerk  to  certify  amount  of  money  voted  in  District 264 

Taxes  voted  by — limit 276 

Funds — interest  on,  how  computed 297 

Funds,  security  required  for  deposits  of 298 

Funds — collateral  security  may  be  given  for  deposits  of 299 

Funds — not  deposited — Treasurer's  duty 300 


132  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

SCHOOL  DISTRICT  BONDS—  Section 

Election  to  determine  issue  of — how  held 183-184 

How  issued _ 184 

Sale  of — application  of  proceeds  185 

Pledge  for  payment 186 

Tax  levy  to  redeem  and  pay  interest 187 

Redemption  of 188 

Payment  of  interest  on : 189 

Preparation  of 190 

Misapplication  of  191 

Funds  from — to  be  custody  of  County  Treasurer 192 

SCHOOL  DISTRICT  OFFICERS— 

Duties  of  Director 150-152 

Duties  of  Clerk  153-4-5-6-7 

SCHOOL  DISTRICT  REFUNDING  BONDS— 

Authority  to  issue 194 

Form,  time  and  interest .' 195 

Registration  of  196 

By  whom  signed  and  sale  thereof 197 

Coupons  of — when  paid  198 

Tax  to  pay  principal  and  interest 199 

How  redeemed  200 

Property  pledged  for  payment  201 

County  Treasurer  to  have  custody  of  funds  from 202 

SCHOOL  DISTRICT  TREASURER— 

To  deposit  School  District  funds — where 294-296 

May  invest — School  District  funds  in  U.  S.  or  State  bonds 295 

Duty  as  to  funds  not  deposited 300 

Funds— liability  for 301 

To  make  no  profit  out  of 302 

Offering  bribe  to — punishment  for 303 

SCHOOL  FUNDS— 

See  "Funds". 

SCHOOL  HOUSES— 

Fire  escapes  on 47 

Doors,  exits,  stairways 48-49-50 

Doors,  exits,  stairways,  penalty  for  not  providing 52 

Fire-escapes  and  exits,  city  or  town  may  make  additional  regu- 
lations    53 

Exempt  from  taxation  257 

How  built 121 

SCHOOL  HOUSE  FUND— 

Of  what  it  consists  ...  ....161 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  133 

SCHOOL  LAND—  Section 

Rights  of  way  across — how  granted '. 335 

Manner  of  leasing j 336 

SCHOOL  LAND  INCOME  FUND— (See  also  "Funds") 

Books  paid  for — out  of 176 

SCHOOL  LAWS— 

Interpreted  by  State  Superintendent  r 6 

By  whom  enforced 13 

To  be  printed  and  distributed ..., 24 

SCHOOL  MONEY— 

To  be  accounted  for  ..; 147 

SCHOOL  MONTH— 

Denned  .: 135 

SCHOOL  OFFENSES— 

Denned — penalty   . 134 

SCHOOL  OFFICERS— 

To  make  reports 24 

May  employ  counsel — when '. 142 

SCHOOL  PUPILS— 

Tuition  of  from  other  districts 120 

Board  of  Directors  may  remove 120 

May  purchase  books 182 

Physical  examination  of — by  whom  made 345 

Physical  examination  of— charts — questions — reports  346 

SCHOOL  SUPPLIES— 

Not  to  be  sold  by  school  officers 136 

SEAL— 

School  District — when  to  have 107 

SEX- 
NO  dscrimination  in  teachers  on  account  of 138 

SCHOOL  TAXES— 

Amount  of — and  limit 76 

How,  when  and  by  whom  distributed 77 

Apportionment  of 77-78 

SCHOOL  WEEK— 

Defined  135 

SPECIAL  ELECTIONS— 

See  "Election— General". 


134  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING 

STATE  BOARD  OF  DEPOSITS—  Section 

Members — duties  281 

To  designate  depositories  282 

To  fix  annual  interest  rate  on  State  funds 286 

To  designate  other  depositories — when 289 

STATE  BOARD  OF  EDUCATION— 

Of  whom  composed  4 

Term  of  office  4 

Vacancies,  how  filled 4 

Created  4 

Members,  removal  of  4 

Meetings  of 4 

To  make  report   9 

Compensation  of  members 12 

To  make  rules  for  public  schools  13 

To  enforce  school  laws 13 

To  have  supervision  of  vocational  schools 14 

To  prescribe  course  of  study  in  schools 15 

To  prescribe  course  of  reading  for  teachers 16 

To  appoint  Commissioner  of  Education 19 

To  conduct  investigation  as  to  educational  needs 26 

To  prescribe  fee  for  examination  for  certficate 30 

To  co-operate  with  Federal  Board  of  Vocational  Education 43 

Duties  of — in  co-operation  with  U.  S.  in  education 35-6-7-8-9 

STATE  BOARD  OF  EXAMINERS— 

Duties  10 

Of  whom  composed  10 

STATE  DEPARTMENT  OF  EDUCATION— 

Created  1 

Provided  with  room  and  assistants 18 

To  keep  list  of  teachers 28 

See  also  "State  Board  of  Education". 

STATE  LAND— 

Taxation — equity  of  purchaser  in — subject  to 260 

Rights  of  way  across — how  granted 335 

Manner  of  leasing  336 

STATE  NORMAL  TRAINING  DEPARTMENT  CERTIFICATE— 

When  issued  38 

STATE  SCHOOL  LAND  INCOME  FUND— 

To  be  apportioned  94 

STATE  SUPERINTENDENT— 

Head  of  Department  of  Education 1 

Duties  of 5 

Shall  decide  controversies  ...  6 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  135 

STATE  SUPERINTENDENT—  ( Contnued )  Section 

May  administer  oaths „ 6 

May  examine  witnesses 6 

Interpret  school  laws  6 

Shall  provide  for  census 8 

To  furnish  forms  and  blanks 8 

To  make  report  9 

To  assume  duties  of  State  Board  of  Examiners 10 

To  advise  with  Trustees  with  reference  to  Normal  Department 

of  University 11 

To  make  rules  for  public  schools 13 

To  supervise  work  of  Commissioners  20 

To  issue  certificates  29 

To  revoke  certificates — when  34 

To  distribute  school  funds  63 

Kx-officio  member  Board  of  Trustees  of  University 64 

Member  Board  of  Charities  and  Reform 65 

Secretary  of  Board  of  Charities  and  Reform 65-66 

Member  School  Land  Board  67 

Appeal  to — from  change  of  District  boundary 84 

Not  to  sell  school  supplies  136 

Physical  examination  of  school  pupils — duties  of  school  pupils — 

duties  in  regard  to 347 

STATE  TEACHERS'  EMPLOYMENT  BUREAU— 

( 'rented  28 

STATE  TEACHERS'  INSTITUTE— 

Held  annually — Secretary  and  Treasurer  353 

Funds  for — how  realized  354 

STATE  TREASURER— 

Custodian  of  funds  alotted  by  Federal  Vocational  Education  Act..  44 

To  keep  school  fund 137 

To  receive  donations  for  schools 146 

To  account  for  school  money,  liability  for  failure  so  to  do 147 

To  deposit  State  funds — where — limit 283 

To  take  bond  from  depositories — amount — form 284 

May  take  collateral  security  from  depositories  285 

To  keep  accurate  accounts  of  deposits  of  State  funds 287 

May  withdraw  State  funds  from  depositories — his  liability 288 

Duty  as  to  State  funds  not  deposited— liability ....289 

To  sell  collateral  for  State  funds— when 290 

Funds — to  make  no  profits  out  of 302 

Offering  bribe  to — punishment  for 303 

STATE  UNIVERSITY— 

Normal  Department,  State  Superintendent  to  advise 11 

Governed  by  Trustees  , 

To  admit  students  on  certificate  to  graduation  from  High  School..237 


136  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

STATE  UNIVERSITY—  ( Continued )  Section 
To  conduct    agricultural    extension    work — appropriation    there- 
for   : 318-319 

Buildings — tax  for — levy  and  expenditure 337 

STUTTERING  CHILDREN— 

See  "Children". 

SUPERINTENDENTS— 

Certification  of 17 

May  select  books  25 

To  report  to  County  Superintendent 93 

SUPERVISORS— 

Certification  of  17 

TAXES— 

Levy  for  High  School  Normal  Training  Departments :...  40 

Amount  of  County  School  tax  and  limit 76 

Apportionment  of  County  School  tax 77-78 

County  Schqol — how,  when  and  by  whom  distributed 77 

For  County  Library 95 

For  County  Library — how  levied  and  collected 96 

Levied  to  redeem  School  District  bonds  and  pay  interest 187 

To  pay  School  District  Refunding  bonds 199 

Levy  for  High  School  District — limit ...220 

For  High  School  District  bonds — how  levied 221 

For  School  purposes — how  levied  and  in  what  amount 255 

What  property  exempt  from 256 

School  houses  exempt  from , 257 

State,  County,  School  District  and  Municipal  bonds  exempt  from 

taxation,  when  258 

What  property  subject  to 259 

State  land — equity  of  purchase  in — subject  to  taxation 260 

Public  lands  under  reclamation  project — equity  of  entryman  in — 

subject  to  taxation 261 

County  levy  when  made — form  of  tax  lists 252 

For  school  purposes 263 

Assessment  for  school  purposes  264 

Equalization  of  assessment  and  levy  of 265 

School — how  collected 266 

School — to  whom  paid  267 

County  and  School— limit 270-271-272-273-274 

County  Library  tax — limit 275 

School  District — limit 276 

Bonded  debt— not  limited   277 

Excess  levy  unlawful — duties  of  County  Clerk  and  County  As- 
sessor in  case  of 278 

Officer  violating  law  guilty  of  misdemeanor — penalty 279 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING  137 

TAXES — (Continued)  Section 

Poll  taxes — levy  and  collection  of 324 

Poll — Receipts  prepared  by  County  Treasurer 325 

Poll— Duty  of  County  Clerk  326 

Poll — Duty  of  County  Assessor 327 

Poll — employers  liable  for — when  328 

Poll — how  collected — sale 329 

Poll — monthly  and  final  settlement  for — made  when 330 

Poll — roll  of  persons  subject  to — to  be  kept 33  J. 

University  buildings — levy  and  expenditure 337 

Limit  on  funds  for  maintenance  of  High  Schools 350 

High  Schools — additional  tax  for — when  separated  from  School 

Districts  351 

High  School— to  maintain  352 

TAXATION  AND  REVENUE— 

Tax  levy  for  High  School  Normal  Training  Departments 40 

High  Schol — tax  to  maintain 352 

Taxes  levied  for  what  purposes  and  in  what  amounts 255 

What  property  exempt  from  taxation ..250 

School  houses  exempt  from  taxes 257 

State,  County,  School  District  and  Municipal  Bonds,  exempt  from 

taxation,  when  258 

What  property  subject  to  taxation 259 

State  land — equity  of  purchaser  in — subject  to  taxation 260 

Public  lands  under  reclamation  project — equity  of  entryman  in 

— subject  to  taxation 261 

County  levy — when  made — form  of  tax  lists 262 

Tax  for  school  purposes 263 

Assessment  for  school  purposes 264 

Equalization  of  assessment  and  levy  of  taxes 265 

School  taxes — how  collected 266 

School  taxes — to  whom  paid 267 

Land  income  fund — when  available 268 

Land  income  fund — appropriated 269 

County  and  school  taxes— limit 270-271-272-273-274 

County  Library  tax — limit 275 

School  District  taxes— limit 276 

Bonded  debt — not  limited 277 

Excess  levy  unlawful — duties  of  County  Clerk  and  County  As- 
sessor, in  case  of 278 

Officer    violating    act    concerning  —  guilty    of    misdemeanor  — 

penalty  270 

Poll  taxes — levy  and  collection  of 324 

Poll  taxes — receipts  prepared  by  County  Treasurer ...325 

Poll  taxes — duty  of  County  Clerk 326 

Poll  taxes — duty  of  County  Assessor 327 

Poll  taxes — employers  liable  for — when ,328 


138  SCHOOL  LAWS  OP  WYOMING 

TAXATION  AND  REVENUE—  ( Continued )  Section 

Poll  taxes — how  collected — sale  329 

Poll  taxes — monthly  and  final  settlement  for — made  when 330 

Poll  taxes — roll  of  persons  subject  to — to  be  kept 331 

Taxes  for  State  University  buildings — levy  and  expenditures 337 

Limt  on  funds  for  maintenance  of  High  Schools 350 

High    Schools — additional    tax,    when    separated    from    School 
District  351 

TEACHERS— 

To  report  , 8 

Training  of  16 

Course  of  reading  for 16 

Certification  of  17 

To  make  reports 24 

May  select  books 25 

To  be  registered 28 

When  not  entitled  to  pay 32 

Must  register  certificates 32 

Number  of — to  be  certified  by  Clerk 74 

Qualifications  for  High  School  Normal  Training  Departments....  39 

Number  to  be  certified  to  by  County  Superintendent 7"> 

How  dismissed  86 

To  receive  pay  for  attending  institute 89 

Appropriation  for 89 

To  attend  institutes 89 

Employment  and  payment  of 130 

To  furnish  list  of  delinquent  children 133 

Not  to  sell  school  supplies 136 

No  discrimination  on  account  of  sex  or  religious  belief 138 

To  make  report  to  District  Clerk 140 

Qualifications  of — in  Kindergartens 172 

High  School  Districts — to  be  employed  by  Trustees 227 

To  make  physical  examination  of  school  pupils — charts — ques- 
tions— reports  346 

Certificate  registration  fee 354 

TEACHERS  FUND— 

To  be  kept  by  Treasurer  and  paid  out  how 160 

TEACHERS  INSTITUTES— 

See  "Institutes." 

TEXT  BOOKS— 

See  "Books." 

THANKSGIVING  DAY— 

Legal  holiday  ....313 


SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING  139 

THE  DISTRICT  BOUNDARY  BOARD—  Section 

To  lay  off,  change  and  abolish  districts 80 

Of  whom   composed 80-82 

Appeal  from  decision  of — to  State  Superintendent.. 84 

TOWNS— 

See  "Cities." 

TREASURER— 

Of  District — to  give  bond 127 

To  make  and  publish  report 159 

To  receive  money  apportioned  to  district 162 

To  render  statement  163 

To  pay  for  books 177 

TRUSTEES— BOARD  OF— 

May  select  books 25 

Of  new  district — how  elected 103 

Elected  at  annual  meeting 105 

Constitute  Board  of  Directors 105 

When  district  may  have  six 106 

To  cause  enumeration  of  children  to  be  made 165 

To  employ  enumerator — when  166 

To  establish  Kindergartens 171 

To  call  election  for  School  District  bonds — to  sell  bonds 183-185 

To  require  additional  bond  from  County  Treasurer  for  money 

received  from  School  District  bonds 193 

To  open  election  for  formation  of  High  School  District 210 

To  act  as  judges  of  election  for  formation  of  High  School  Dis- 
tricts   211 

High  School  Districts — first— how  appointed  214 

High  School  Districts — when  elected  215 

High  School  Districts — term  of  office 216 

Board  of — High  School  District — quorum 217 

High  School  Districts — their  duties  219 

High  School  Districts — to  submit  question  of  issuing  bonds 221 

High  School  Districts — to  make  estimates  for  maintenance 233 

High  School  Districts — to  keep  records — seal,  etc 225 

High  School  Districts — to  provide  buildings 226 

High  School  Districts — to  employ  teachers 227 

High  School  Districts — to  make  reports 236 

High  School  Districts — entitled  to  mileage — no  compensation 236 

Duty  as  to  physical  examination  of  children 349 

District  Board  of  Trustees  to  be  head  of  educational  matters 3 

TRUANCY— 

Duties  of  officers 132 

TRUANT  OFFICER^- 

Duties  of  ..  ....132 


140  SCHOOL  LAWS  OF  WYOMING 

TUITION—  Section 

High  Scholos  238 

High  School  Districts— free  to  residents 238 

UNIVERSITY  OF  WYOMING— 

See  "State  University." 

UNIVERSITY,  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES— 

Not  affected  by  State  Department 1 

UNIVERSITIES— 

Approved   17 

USURY— 

When  rate  not  effective 311 

Interest  on  public  warrants 312 

VACANCY— 

In  District  Board — how  filled ..126 

In  office — determined  by  whom 248 

In  elective  ofiice — how  caused 254 

VACCINATION— 

May  be  required 310 

VILLAGE— 

To  be  in  one  School  District 83 

VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION— 

Appropriation  for  355 

VOCATIONAL  SCHOOLS— 

Under  whose  supervision 14 

VOTERS— 

Qualifications  of 115 

WASHINGTON'S  BIRTHDAY— 

Legal  holiday  313 

WOMAN  SUFFRAGE  ..  ....251 


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